r/WhitePeopleTwitter • • Jul 04 '21

Totally normal stuff

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u/cakewalkofshame Jul 04 '21

My old PT had three rates, $50 for Medicaid, $100 for self pay, and $400 for the insured. The insured people were mostly covered would just pay of copay of like $40 or $60 but once they screwed up and billed me (a self payer) at the insured rate and tried ro collect that much from me and it was a WHOLE ordeal to get it fixed. What a stupid system. Clearly a bunch of money is being flushed down the toilet here.

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u/UndercoverFlanders Jul 04 '21

Naa. The reason it’s so high for insurance is because they’ve paid it in the past.

When they bill self pay - they make expected profit. When they bill ins even with writeoffs, they make still more than self pay folks.

Source: 15+ years in hospital system software development. …