re: Medical Billing has gone mad

they are fricking you. What they are doing is called balance billing. They do this to pad the bills. Even though the insurance has paid, they hound a customer for a small amount because they know most will eventually pay. I had a MRI about 10 years ago with a provider in my network. Insurance has a prearranged price for procedures and they cover it on the plan I had at the time. I owed zero, but the provider started sending me bills for 274 dollars.which is difference between the agreed upon amount and the amount they normally charge. Ochsners said I owed it, United health care said I didn’t. They threatened me for a year with collections. It wasnt about the money it was about the fact that I didn’t owe it. Finally the local rep for United health care had to threat to pull their contract to make it go away. I have heard different people say they had problems with United health care but they stuck with me and handled it ever step of the way fighting ochsners. This went on for almost a year. Point is if you ok now for sure you don’t owe, do not pay it. They do this to thousands of ppl who will pay just to make it go away because it is such a low amount. But in reality it is illegal and is fraud.