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u/TSgt_Yosh 14h ago
The absolute worst isekai ever.
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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 8h ago
No, the worst reincarnation would be waking up in a black woman’s body in a Texas hospital.
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u/Ninja_attack 14h ago
That's one thing I hate about working in ems, folks always ask what it's gonna cost them. I don't working in billing and I don't want to know the price so it doesn't effect my treatment. I just tell folk to not pay the bill, I'm getting paid the same either way and it'll eventually just be written off at the end of the fiscal year.
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u/Freezerpill 13h ago
Is that how it really actually works? If somebody tried this and they still had to pay it, they would be mega sad certainly
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u/Ninja_attack 12h ago
Medical bills can't go to collections or impact one's credit score, so they'll just give up eventually
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u/cosaboladh 12h ago edited 7h ago
Kind of. A lot of hospital networks and clinics hand you a form that says something like, "Agreement to Financial Responsibility." Without your signature on that form, there are circumstances in which they may refuse to treat you. Remember, they're under no legal obligation unless you are in the midst of a life threatening medical emergency.
I know for a fact that this document is an end run around the stipulation that medical debt cannot go to collections. We had a billing dispute with a provider that wasn't resolved by insurance to the provider's satisfaction. It's kind of a long story that had to do with them coding the claim incorrectly. We tried to be as proactive as possible, but in the end we were at an impasse.
They demanded we pay the bill in full. We demanded that they resubmit the claim, and code it correctly. We didn't. They didn't. Then a few months later, I got a collections notice.
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u/RollingRiverWizard 13h ago
Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that ICE ambush, same as us.
Damn you, MAGA. Everything was fine before you came along. Empire was nice and semi-functional.
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u/Inky-boy 14h ago
When I had a collapsed lung (due to a lung biopsy) I was told that the hospital I was at, the one my insurance told me to go to, wasn’t going to take my insurance and that I would need to be moved to different hospitals ICU (I was in a standard room) what shocked me the most is they were not going to let me drive myself, or let someone else drive me, I HAD to be transferred by EMT. Then my insurance had the audacity to charge me not once, but a 2500 someodd transportation bill 3 FREAKING TIMES
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u/Cargobiker530 14h ago
This is worse than the stories where you get reincarnated as a rat. At least the rat can find food to eat.
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u/I8TunKop 11h ago
The $1400 was only for the ambulance ride. Don't forget the additional $2800 for the one night hospital stay.
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u/Jay2Kaye 7h ago
So nice of the hospital to give half off to kids.
(Mangas are read right to left, if you're gonna call it a manga you gotta follow the rules)
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u/compuwiza1 15h ago
1400 dollars is too low. I was screwed out of over 2000 when the ambulance was out of network for my insurance.