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To: Cogito who wrote (63419)	5/4/2008 10:19:02 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542109

I think you can argue that. If you see them in the hospital, and they don't tell you they are out of network, they should be IN network. I think they have a legal duty to tell you if they aren't.

To: Cogito who wrote (63419)	5/5/2008 10:24:20 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 542109

That happened to us when Ammo cut his finger in half while at USC. He went to Cedars Sinai also, which was part of our PPO, but gave him an out of network doctor for the surgery. When your 20 year old son has severed the tendons in his right hand index finger, you don't stop to think about these things froim long distance and he sure didn't understand it. Bills kept coming in and it took two years to get it all straight. (then we got a nasty note from a bill collector three years later about one we hadn't even seen). It would have been worse had Ammo not decided he wanted to watch the surgery rather than be put out- at least we avoided the anesthesiologist. He said it was very cool. The doctor said he'd never had anyone do that. Maybe they just figure in LA everyone is rich or something. I am so sorry you are going through this. I was fighting with our insurance about something this week, and I said to someone how awful it would be to have to do this while trying to deal with something serious.