It is amazing how the hospital bills for one amount and then the insurance pays a completely different discounted amount - why not skip the first step and just bill for what will be paid. It is really a shame that sick people can not focus on getting well because they have to spend so much energy keeping the insurance company in line and watch all of the different billing services so carefully. My first surgery was scheduled for the Tuesday after Labor Day 06. My insurance company called me the Friday before at like 3 pm and requested that I change doctors or they would not pay for my surgery. I told them to take a flying leap. I was not changing doctors and had just spent the day with an attorney making sure that my affairs were in order. I was so stressed by the time I went to surgery. There now I am off my soap box, maybe.

Patty