Thursday, March 28, 2013

Gotta love the treatment bills


There is nothing like receiving mail from your health care provider.  Yes, it just warms your heart.  Especially the ones that begin "This is not a bill!"  It's there, at least with my health care where you see the cost of treatment? 

Since I am undergoing treatment, I see these bills regularly.  Most of the time they what I would call normal.  List of charges, what the insurance pays and  the column that says what I may owe.  Most of the time, it makes sense.

Then there is the statement of benefits I got last weekend,  It said that one of the charges was $151,000.  Then there was a code underneath it that says the insurance company will refuse it because the treatment hasn't been approved and is considered non traditional.  I don't understand this because the drug I am receiving, Yevory,   was approved by the FDA in 2011. I called the doctor's office who sent me to their central billing who said that they are in touch with the insurance company.  I said when will I know when it is settled.  They said when I get a bill.

Don't you just love it?

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