Reply #9: What is a new medicare (and Meidicaid) patience? [View All]

And the worst I've personally endured of a hospital over billing was Children's Hospital at Erlanger when I had a 2 yr. old there. There were 4 docs who never touched my son, just stuck their heads in the g*&damned door and asked how he was doing and we were billed for their sticking their frickin' heads through the door!

The pediatrician had called Children's as he had been notified that our son had his stomach pumped in a North Georgia hospital. He told them to bypass the emergency room upon our arrival and to put our son in a room for observation until the next morning or until he rec'd information that might change that. We were in the ER for hours, they didn't have diapers for him, they didn't have small needles to stick him with - at a Children's Hospital - they didn't give a damn about our son or other children they were just trying to make money. After hours in the ER, we were on the phone, after we'd cleared it with the pediatrician, to take him back to the North GA hospital where he'd first been treated.

If you don't think that private insurance sucks and it along with some hospitals are raking you over the coals, you need to think again.