Has this ever happened to you? I had a procedure done in February and I am still waiting. It is a large bill (per my insurance benefit form) and I want to get rid of it. I don’t know who the doctor was because he or they were affiliated with a partnership used by the facility and that is all I know.
They bill insurance first and wait to see what they will pay. Sometimes insurance comapnies can take 90 days to pay their share.
Yes, the insurance companies may take their time. There is also oversee, people to check the billing from the clinic or lab or hospital or doctor. More so in government run programs than private. There are supposed to be cost savings programs all along this billing process. Sometimes it works to your benefit, sometimes not.
Be careful what you wish. Soon you’ll get bills from every medical person who ever looked at you, took your blood pressure, applied a bandage, put the box of tissues next to your bed, etc. Just when you think you’re in the clear, you receive another. I got bills from 3 medical places, a lab and 2 physicians for a simple out-patient procedure.
Medicare can be notoriously slow in paying claims and if that’s combined with a large medical group or hospital it can turn into a long delay before you get the bill for your part of the service. I sometimes get bills from a year or more ago and of course the doctors office wants to be immediately paid the share I owe or they threaten to send it to a collection agency. I pay the bills in the order I get them and as the money is available. No problem, my credit score remains over 800.
In the UK we start paying for our national health as soon as we start working.
Then if you are ill you get medical treatment, if you are not able to work you will still get medical treatment.
That way no one will ever go without medical treatment, no matter how much it costs.
Fortunately we do not have that problem in Britain,all medical treatment and hospitals are free.
Because they are looking for ways to bill you more.
Have never heard of this, just the opposite.
I’ve never had that problem. With my insurance we practically get billed the next day for our share.