After Surgery, Surprise $117,000 Medical Bill From Doctor He Didn’t Know
In operating rooms and on hospital wards across the country, physicians and other health providers typically help one another in patient care. But in an increasingly common practice that some medical experts call drive-by doctoring, assistants, consultants and other hospital employees are charging patients or their insurers hefty fees. They may be called in when the need for them is questionable. And patients usually do not realize they have been involved or are charging until the bill arrives.
uh…Yes.
I had a pt last week who asked me, and what he was really doing was venting/complaining, why he had to have a sleep test when he had originally complained of a cough. I was in a gregarious mood and opined that what I had learned in health care was, “what i don’t want to know”.
Did I say gregarious? Of course I meant nefarious.
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It’s all about the billings.
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