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Originally Posted by Groesbeck Hurricane
Your trip needs to be to the hospital's patient advocate. Request adjustment for the bill. Do nothing but smile, be friendly, be cordial. Find discounts for cash payments, ask what can be done to help you out. Never threaten to sue or seek an attorney. Ask what their rates to the insurance companies are and request an adjustment of your billing down to that level. Work the help me out angle.
Glad your wife is basically OK! Sorry she will have to go to surgery.
If something sounds wrong to you then question it. Do not agree to everything demanded if it sounds wrong. You also share responsibility for your own care.
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This.
Your (her) first mistake was in dropping ins. coverage. I understand it is expensive.
You could ask a specialist to review the medical decision making here, but it seems fine.
No one is going make a perfect diagnosis all the time. That is even true when a surgeon is sitting there staring at a mass of tissue that does not match expectations.
Now, it is always possible that they ordered more and more expensive tests than they had to. That could be reviewed, again understanding that the risk distribution is highly asymmetrical.
Think about what would happen if you took a car in for diagnosis of a problem and they did too many diagnostic tests... the car would not die if they erred on the too little testing side, nor would it be in pain for life or crippled.