- Thread starter
- #21
Ask for contracted rate to get the cost down?
You're assuming the surgery is for an emergency where the client deals with the bill later.
If it's a scheduled procedure it doesn't make it through pre-authorization. Gall bladder surgery? The call from the hospital to the patient goes like this:
"We just got off the phone with your insurance company and only $2,000 of this $12,000 procedure is going to be covered. How will you be paying the balance?"