On two separate occasions I have been billed for medical services that I did not owe.
I have medicare and have enrolled in a an Advantage Plan C. with a built in drug plan D. It is an HMO and I have had no problems in getting referals to any Dr. that my primary physician has refered me to. The problem has not been with the Insurance Co. but rather the hospital provider.
I had occasion to go to the emergency room, of the approved hospital in the network, back in june of 2007. My plan calls for a $40.00 co-pay for which I was never billed. The following month, however I recieved a bill from the attendending ER doctor that was for $394.00. The The group the Dr was with was not as it turned out part of the network. They had been paid $154.00 by the insurance co and were billing me for the rest. I had followed the insurance company contract to go to a network provider and felt that if the hospital had doctors that were not part of my plan than it was the hospitals problem not mine. After no less than twelve phone calls...
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