I really wish I didn't know what I did. On the other hand, I'm grateful because I'll never get caught so short again.
I know what I know; I gained that knowledge in a fashion that was truly awful. The fact there are emotions involved? It keeps it from becoming an academic exercise.
Being robbed when you are able-bodied and able to defend yourself is one thing. Being tossed under the bus when you're already in a wheelchair, nearly blind and starving to death is something else.
The whole fact that your insurance carrier is going to make you fiscally responsible for any mistakes your provider made - and this could be your life we're talking about - should make anyone stop and say WHAT.
Penalties, being shut-down - those are things you can do to facilities that screw up. Hold them accountable. Like, jail. Keep the focus where it belongs. And I don't even hear "they won't be able to bill the patient." Yes, they will. They'll have to.
Making the patient the ultimate recipient of both incompetence and fiscal responsiblity is far beyond insult on top of injury.
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I know what I know; I gained that knowledge in a fashion that was truly awful. The fact there are emotions involved? It keeps it from becoming an academic exercise.
Being robbed when you are able-bodied and able to defend yourself is one thing. Being tossed under the bus when you're already in a wheelchair, nearly blind and starving to death is something else.
The whole fact that your insurance carrier is going to make you fiscally responsible for any mistakes your provider made - and this could be your life we're talking about - should make anyone stop and say WHAT.
Penalties, being shut-down - those are things you can do to facilities that screw up. Hold them accountable. Like, jail. Keep the focus where it belongs. And I don't even hear "they won't be able to bill the patient." Yes, they will. They'll have to.
Making the patient the ultimate recipient of both incompetence and fiscal responsiblity is far beyond insult on top of injury.