I don't think most doctors understand the full costs

Mar 25, 2016
8:20:30am

WorfoSAUR All-American

In school so far, I've rarely seen doctors talk about the actual cost of doing tests and other things other than to say "this one is cheaper than that one" but if one test is 1500 and the other is 500, we don't discuss that

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WorfoSAUR

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Medical costs are out of control.

bluebloodedcoug

3/25/16 7:12am

And we pay full sticker price for a new car as well? Plus $750 for under coat?

OldCosmo

3/25/16 7:19am

I'll pay $175 for my next baby and that's it.

sah22

3/25/16 9:02am

Please expound. Copay?

blueaussie

3/25/16 9:26am

Let me guess: ... H M O

OldCosmo

3/25/16 9:30am

I don't know about him but we have almost hit out of pocket max this year.

blueaussie

3/25/16 9:39am

Bummer, must be a rough year so far.

OldCosmo

3/25/16 9:59am

Nah, it's been good. A new baby and then just a lot of follow up tests for him.

blueaussie

3/25/16 10:22am

Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal. $175 copay and then they cover 100%.

sah22

3/25/16 11:30am

Nice. Thanks.

blueaussie

3/25/16 11:53am

This while other people use the ER like their primary care doctor and don't pay

Lalau

3/25/16 7:20am

Reagan changed the law cannot deny ER care to anyone

chirocoug

3/25/16 7:45am

EMTALA.

Virginia Ute

3/26/16 9:48am

Sounds like hospital stay bill is out of control

HoustonCougar

3/25/16 7:21am

Yep

Littlerich

3/25/16 7:22am

Try NICU. Our daughter got put there 8 hours as a "precaution"

OU Cougar

3/25/16 7:27am

That's preposterous that you were charged that.

spugeddy24

3/25/16 7:36am

That's $4,375 per hour!? What did they do each hour to earn that $?

Agaricus

3/25/16 7:47am

If it was like our reason two day stay, they watch the monitor and enter room

blueaussie

3/25/16 8:14am

NICU equipment and monitoring is high level

WorfoSAUR

3/25/16 8:18am

What hospital was this at?

RexIdaCoug

3/25/16 7:49am

My guess is you were paying for the families who don't pay their bills

KingDave

3/25/16 7:52am

Sounds like a nasty justification to me. Those charges are not justifiable

spugeddy24

3/25/16 10:19am

My daughter was in the NICU for 7 weeks. She's our million dollar baby.

DB Cooper

3/25/16 10:27am

That's shameful if true.

SouthernCoug

3/25/16 1:40pm

I'm convinced that medical billing practices in the US are near the top of the

Flippy

3/25/16 7:51am

And if you are not insured, they charge you much more than they do the insurance companies.

roseyscenario

3/25/16 7:58am

Can you negotiate costs up front?

Bert609

3/25/16 7:59am

It is an outrage and a scandal.

roseyscenario

3/25/16 8:00am

The best is how they just start doing tests, don't explain anything or the costs

Dillinger

3/25/16 8:03am

I don't think most doctors understand the full costs

WorfoSAUR

3/25/16 8:20am

I don't think they are out gouging patients, most of them anyways, but I agree

Dillinger

3/25/16 1:03pm

Doctors who have their own practice might know, but those part of a hospital

Schultz is back

3/25/16 6:28pm

Yep. Our bills were about $10k with no epidural and staying one night. Crazy.

dtownCoug

3/25/16 8:20am

We had a bill that charged $2 per 200mg ibuprofen pill.

Caboom

3/25/16 8:25am

For our last baby we paid as we left and asked for a discount. Seems like they

fiberpost

3/25/16 8:26am

This is why home births are better if mom and baby are healthy.

ybyuy

3/25/16 8:31am

I definitely trust midwives over doctors. Doctors are just itching to operate. It's like they teach it during residency.

TaiJuan

3/25/16 8:42am

Itching to operate?

WJCougar

3/25/16 8:50am

I am telling you: that addition several years of intensive training is just terrible.

TaiJuan

3/25/16 8:55am

TIC meter broken

scottpete

3/25/16 9:31am

This may take the cake for most uneducated and ignorant post on CB. There is so much misinformation here, I don't know

slowhiteguy

3/25/16 10:30am

Yeah, I am very stupid and uneducated.

ybyuy

3/25/16 10:50am

Did you actually read what you wrote? I work with OBs and midwives every single day. I've been in emergencies with

slowhiteguy

3/25/16 10:53am

We found that the hospital billed us for several fraudulent charges.

thecelloguy

3/25/16 8:35am

It wasn't fraud. Was it incorrect, heck yeah. Should the hospital have gotten it

OldCosmo

3/25/16 8:57am

Same experience, son spent overnight in hospital, charged 2 nights and

Agaricus

3/26/16 7:19am

Seems fraudulent to me

spugeddy24

3/26/16 7:22am

I've been on a high deductible plan for the last six years

Cachanilla83

3/25/16 8:48am

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cvd6262

3/25/16 11:47am

You have to pay for the medical law suits and doctor liability insurance because

Lance71

3/25/16 9:02am

Uhhhhh, no.

MormonDevil

3/25/16 9:54am

From the over-the-top Leftist rag Forbes ...

MormonDevil

3/25/16 9:56am

Forbes again ...

MormonDevil

3/25/16 10:00am

wow,.. had a baby in december and it cost us 350$ out of pocket. but that compa

Mayor of Cougartown

3/25/16 9:15am

Midwives have worked well for us! < $3300 (nothing covered by insurance)

AFewThoughts

3/25/16 9:25am

Consider yourself lucky. That's like knowing you are going to be in a traffic accident and knowingly not putting on

slowhiteguy

3/25/16 10:36am

You may be only exposed to the ones that result in problems.

Rusby

3/26/16 12:51am

By the time we had our last two kids, we figured out how to make money on

Mister P

3/25/16 10:18am

You know, you unwind that process back to the first mover and it makes you a

OldCosmo

3/25/16 10:40am

Government regulations lead to increased costs which then get passed onto the rest of us. Thank the government.

slowhiteguy

3/25/16 10:39am

The doctor will owe me money for our next baby.....

BYU Grounds

3/25/16 1:06pm

A second part of why costs are so high.

blueaussie

3/25/16 2:24pm

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