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To: KLP who wrote (340956)1/1/2010 10:19:45 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (2) of 793917
 
what Medicare paid toward the bill was about 1/5 of the actual bill

Wow! And the supplement paid 20% of 20%. Not too good. You need to find out about this -- doctors cannot charge Medicare beneficiaries more than the "Max allowed rates" - which are not far from what they "approved" for the surgery. Could be that under the existing rules they should not have billed you their full rack rate.

...The government and insurers have doctors in their back pocket for a long, long time. They are not up to any meaningful "resistance", imo. They'll try to adjust to whatever comes down next.
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