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To: epicure who wrote (130181)	2/6/2010 12:42:30 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541958

>>I just dug out one of the more bizarre bills- on it we were billed 543.00- because the insurance company had not paid. I contested the way the bill was coded and it was resubmitted- guess how much the write down was? It was the biggest one I've ever seen. The insurance ended up paying 75.00.<< I got one bill from Cedars Sinai for a two day hospital stay. The bill was 9,800-something. The discounted rate billed to insurance was a little over 1,000. I could look up the exact numbers. But there you are. Anyone paying cash would have to pay nearly ten grand. I'm sure there's some rationale for that, but I can't see the logic.