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To: epicure who wrote (63425)	5/4/2008 10:22:03 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542087

Syb - I'm planning to try to negotiate with them. The fact that I had no way of knowing they were out of network will be a part of my argument. There's also the fact that their delay in billing me has led to very bad timing, in terms of my ability to pay. - Allen

To: epicure who wrote (63425)	5/5/2008 5:54:05 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542087

I think they have a legal duty to tell you if they aren't. If they don't, they should. It's reasonable to put the onus on the patient to check to see if a clearly private provider to whom one is referred is on one's insurance list. But in a facility that is a designated preferred provider, it's reasonable to assume that the personnel assigned to you by the system are part of the system. I ended up in an emergency room about a year ago and was surprised when I got a separate bill from the designated attending. It wasn't a lot of money so it was no big deal but I think that a warning is called for.