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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: David Jones who wrote (33283)6/12/2005 10:56:16 PM
From: Elroy JetsonRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
I've got to tell you, I've never heard of a $6,500 bill for anesthesiology like you were billed, even for a open-heart operation and puffed up to pay for the uninsured. I wonder how many anesthesiologists worked how many hours for that?

I've notice that insurers like Blue Cross are picking up a larger portion of the bill for the uninsured.

Ten years ago the discount on inflated hospital bills down to the "contracted rate" approached 90%.

I had a minor out-patient operation last year, with full anesthesia, (five hours door to door) and the Blue Cross contracted rates were 55% of the bill from the hospital and the anesthesiologist, and 100% of the surgeon's bill.

 	 	Billed 	 Paid
Hospital	$14,068 	$7,737 
Anesthesia	$680 	 	$380 
Surgeon	 $475 	 	$474
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