[greglepore]

There are issues,like the non diagnostic colonoscopy (ie nothing found) with no copay per the hospital's contract with my insurer that was coded as diagnostic so that the hospital could bill me $500. Wasn't 'til I told them to sue me that they corrected it.

But I suspect that was a mistake. Fraud exists, but I don't think its "rampant".

What is rampant is the culture of "bill anything" because we need to consume care. Its not like we'll won't get treated. The other thing that I believe is criminal is the non-transparancy of billing-procedures are routinely billed to the uninisured at rates hundreds of times greater than the insurers. I do get that the collection rate is low on these, hence the great discount, but this is why we need a single payer system.