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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 561339" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I think that many people do not think of health care as they would any other purchase. There are a LOT of docs who have no clue how much they charge for services. Often only the billing people seem to have that info. As the purchaser, we need to push for more info on our bills and for accountability. I have yet to get a hospital bill that didn't have a mistake. Like charging me for six iv setups when they got the iv needle in the first time and no second attempt even happened, much less a second attempt with a new iv setup. I have almost always gotten charged for medications I didn't get. Hospital billing seems to think that since insurance pays all but the deductible then as the patient/consumer I shouldn't 'make a fuss'. It all comes out of my pocket in one way or another, so it is my business.</p><p></p><p>I also think that we need to get copies of any tests. Not just a paper that says that tests are all normal, but the actual results that the lab sends to the doctor. Even if you don't at this time want to graph or track those results, you might in the future. I have had office people at the doctor's tell me that I wasn't allowed to get the lab results, just the dr report, and each time they regret it. I do this because I know how quickly the files are thrown away and all that info is lost. Yet in ten yrs I might need that info. Having the info from some docs I saw as a teen helped my docs trace my vit D deficiency back to my early teens. They then figured that there must be some reason my body won't use it or make it, but they don't know why. Knowing it was very much a long term thing really changed how they addressed the problems. While it hasn't helped much, at least we know some of what not to do.</p><p></p><p>I hope that someday we can get to the point where prices are more standardized for medical care and where those prices are known to the consumers, not just the insurance co's and doctor's billing offices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 561339, member: 1233"] I think that many people do not think of health care as they would any other purchase. There are a LOT of docs who have no clue how much they charge for services. Often only the billing people seem to have that info. As the purchaser, we need to push for more info on our bills and for accountability. I have yet to get a hospital bill that didn't have a mistake. Like charging me for six iv setups when they got the iv needle in the first time and no second attempt even happened, much less a second attempt with a new iv setup. I have almost always gotten charged for medications I didn't get. Hospital billing seems to think that since insurance pays all but the deductible then as the patient/consumer I shouldn't 'make a fuss'. It all comes out of my pocket in one way or another, so it is my business. I also think that we need to get copies of any tests. Not just a paper that says that tests are all normal, but the actual results that the lab sends to the doctor. Even if you don't at this time want to graph or track those results, you might in the future. I have had office people at the doctor's tell me that I wasn't allowed to get the lab results, just the dr report, and each time they regret it. I do this because I know how quickly the files are thrown away and all that info is lost. Yet in ten yrs I might need that info. Having the info from some docs I saw as a teen helped my docs trace my vit D deficiency back to my early teens. They then figured that there must be some reason my body won't use it or make it, but they don't know why. Knowing it was very much a long term thing really changed how they addressed the problems. While it hasn't helped much, at least we know some of what not to do. I hope that someday we can get to the point where prices are more standardized for medical care and where those prices are known to the consumers, not just the insurance co's and doctor's billing offices. [/QUOTE]
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