RobbieB
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I'm surprised you'd make such a comment since the national debt is the ultimate "blow that dough" experience.
I'm not in debt.
I'm surprised you'd make such a comment since the national debt is the ultimate "blow that dough" experience.
When this site is at its best, it is providing information from user to user on how to invest, retire, search for a retirement house, and of course...navigating issues like the one in this thread. There have been a lot of examples, and pieces of information in this thread, but what this thread needs is an expert in the field of health insurance to list how all of us prepare and avoid this type of situation. JMO
And the hospital is worse, because not only do you need an expert to defend you against the hospital finance people, you need an expert/advocate to make sure you don't get bad/incorrect care and to make sure they don't inadvertently infect you with a superbug. We're doomed .Most people won't close a real estate deal without a lawyer. Yet here we are, signing our life away to potentially 100s of thousands of dollars of liability when we enter a hospital.
...anyone with Medicare, or anyone helping a loved one wade through the maze of receiving hospital care with Medicare, should read the information. One really cute trick used by the hospitals is to "admit" a patient, and then later, without the patient's knowledge, retroactively reclassify the stay as "observation care"...uh...really This is why the world needs lawyers...
This is a really (financially) scary thread to read, but if I understand correctly there is nothing to learn (or am I missing something?) except to get paranoid waiting for the old age to come...
I do not understand the difference between these two classifications: Admission and Observation?
I know of others who had to pay because they had not been "admitted" to the hospital. Always make sure you are formally admitted to the hospital!
So, in this case it seems that they are "pushing" even obvious inpatient procedures to out patient billing to enhance profits. It is obvious fraud and punishable if this guy would file a claim against Medicare for fraudulent practices.
Like my doctor's office, a good old school guy trying to stay alive as an independent.Things are austere but fully functional.
But how do you know? I would not believe some lowly admin.
It seems strange that if you spend two nights in a hospital for a medical procedure such as a TURP that logically this must be billed under the DRG system and not the Part B outpatient system.