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Financial Assistance for people with no health insurance? WTF?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:08 pm
How is it that the BR General Emergency Room can give 100% financial assistance to people who lack health insurance, when it's illegal to not have health insurance?
I can't imagine that it's legal to subsidize illegal activity.
I can't imagine that it's legal to subsidize illegal activity.
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Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:09 pm to RidiculousHype
By law they cant turn anyone away
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:10 pm to RidiculousHype
You'd be incredibly pissed off if you knew all of the other breaks people without insurance get for being total shitheads.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:11 pm to Duckman13
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By law they cant turn anyone away
As it has been since 1986, but insurance reform will cause X million to lose access to life saving emergency care per the MSM and the left.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:14 pm to Duckman13
We would have been better off not having insurance at all. Have to pay $2K for an ER visit. We'd have owed ZERO if we'd have been uninsured.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:17 pm to RidiculousHype
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:19 pm to RidiculousHype
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We would have been better off not having insurance at all. Have to pay $2K for an ER visit. We'd have owed ZERO if we'd have been uninsured.
Wrong
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:20 pm to RidiculousHype
Can't speak for BR General, but some of the..."less desirable" hospitals around here have contracts with Medicaid that gets them reimbursed (at MCD rates) for unfunded care. The patients have to have a screening and prove the financial hardship. If it passes, MCD pays the hospital, patient pays nothing.
The hospital will usually try and get them enrolled in Medicaid afterwards, but most just leave and the cycle starts over.
The hospital will usually try and get them enrolled in Medicaid afterwards, but most just leave and the cycle starts over.
This post was edited on 8/9/17 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:20 pm to RidiculousHype
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We'd have owed ZERO if we'd have been uninsured.
You live below the poverty level?
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:30 pm to DWaginHTown
Explain
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:31 pm to MSMHater
Based on what they told us, there's no income threshold for the uninsured.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:32 pm to MSMHater
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Can't speak for BR General, but some of the..."less desirable" hospitals around here have contracts with Medicaid that gets them reimbursed (at MCD rates) for unfunded care. The patients have to have a screening and prove the financial hardship. If it passes, MCD pays the hospital, patient pays nothing.
The hospital will usually try and get them enrolled in Medicaid afterwards, but most just leave and the cycle starts over.
Louisiana reimburses hospitals for anyone uninsured. People come in all the time without insurance and leave without insurance, and don't pay a penny, because John Bel picks up the tab.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:33 pm to RidiculousHype
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We would have been better off not having insurance at all. Have to pay $2K for an ER visit. We'd have owed ZERO if we'd have been uninsured.
If you truly believed that then you wouldn't have insurance.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:41 pm to RidiculousHype
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when it's illegal to not have health insurance?
I didnt know it was illegal
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:41 pm to RidiculousHype
I know a guy who refused to get insurance. I guess he paid the Obamacare penalty or whatever instead. Wound up in the hospital for a kidney stone and is on the hook for $34K. The hospital is giving him very reasonable repayment terms, but he will stll have a monthly note hanging over his head for the foreseeable future.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:42 pm to Jim Rockford
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but he will stll have a monthly note hanging over his head for the foreseeable future.
he should negotiate, pretty easy to make that go away for the cheap, or for gratis
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:45 pm to Jim Rockford
I know a guy that got bit by a copperhead a few years ago. He didn't have insurance and left the hospital with a $90,000 bill.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:47 pm to Jim Rockford
Your buddy got screwed. Heres how to do it (if you don't make significant income).
Don't have health insurance, pay the penalty come tax time bc its cheaper tha paying a years worth of insurance premiums. get sick and go to the ER, then sign up for Obamacare since thete is no such thing as a preexisting condition. (I work in insurance)
Don't have health insurance, pay the penalty come tax time bc its cheaper tha paying a years worth of insurance premiums. get sick and go to the ER, then sign up for Obamacare since thete is no such thing as a preexisting condition. (I work in insurance)
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:51 pm to Duckman13
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By law they cant turn anyone away
This is factually incorrect or Fake News misleading at the least. They can't turn people away UNTIL those individuals have been medically screened and are stable. They can refuse to treat them if they are stable.
Many organizations struggle to get poor people to complete Medicaid applications because of how cumbersome they are. Therefore the complexity of the situation causes the burden to be placed on the hospital. It is easier for them to write it off and potentially collect DSH (disproportionate share payments) than fight people for it.
More organizations need to have screening policies to not treat stable patients without first securing a copay. Also, providers should minimize the narcotics distributed (where possible) via prescriptions.
Posted on 8/9/17 at 3:52 pm to TigersSEC2010
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Louisiana reimburses hospitals for anyone uninsured. People come in all the time without insurance and leave without insurance, and don't pay a penny, because John Bel picks up the tab
Actually it doesn't. Only the Lake gets reimbursed in BR and a few others in other cities.
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