Hospital Overcharges 101

I spent two years demysitifying my hospital bill - to find that I was being gouged 800% profit. Here's how I learned the industry standards for calculating fair and reasonable charges. For more information: www.HospitalBillingFormula.blogspot.com

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[project0omega]

ub-04 form......hipaa? 

[tintdaddy]

should the UB-04 form still help if we do not have insurance? we want to protect our credit and after auditing the medical codes they are billing me $8500 for what should only be about $1000 and this is after we already paid $1500.Thanks

[jlsea]

I called Cedars the day after I saw your video; within that phone call I got the billing dept. to promise to send me my UB-04. Not without resistance: "You absolutely have the right to your medical information, but I cannot send you that form." Now we'll see if she actually sends it - but I couldn't have been able to persuade her without your video. Heck, I wouldn't have even to know to challenge the bill in the first place! You truly have performed a public service.

[jlsea]

THANKYOUTHANKYOU I'm disputing a $5000 charge from Cedars for a proceedure performed in Jan 2009, and I'm still getting new charges on it. This is just what I needed - thanks so much for sharing the info and for fighting the fight in the first place!

[3ringquercus]

The URL for Hospital Victims is dot com, not dot org--else, this is fantastic and such a public service. Thank you so much, will save and share. Good luck to you, and stay well!!!

[jimamidon]

Thank you for sharing all this info ~ thanks for having so much spunk and determination ...

[Zalobar]

I went in at 11:00 AM one day, had a surgical proceedure, was home for dinner that evening. Most of the time spent there was recovery from anasthesia. It was over $30,000. Thats right 30k. It was covered by workmans comp. But dont these unsurance cos. Know what you just explained? If not, no wonder premiums are so high. Fair billing = Lower premiums = everyone can afford jealth ins. How much have our reps spent just arguing over the health care Bill? Maybe the IRS should audit health care.

[mdhaight]

Great video. Thank you for posting it.

[sanstar922]

Honey, if people were able to answer your questions in the billing dept, they'd be working in the hospital itself, not the billing dept. They're not all medical geniuses in that field.

[LaughYourAss]

omg this was helpful 5/5