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It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied.

Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied. Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

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[–] • 13 pts

Kind of similar. My pops had a knee replacement and the total cost seemed kinda high. He asked for an itemized bill, they came back to him amd said there was no longer any amount due, due to a billing error and he would not have to pay a thing. He never got that itemized bill.

[–] [deleted] • 8 pts

I've heard of this exact thing happening before. It seems like a good practice to ask for an itemized list regardless of the cost.

[–] • 7 pts

"Sorry for the delay, in looking up the bill we determined that there was an error in the cost, and in actuality the procedure didn't cost us anything. No doctors took any time, and no materials were used, so there is no cost to you. A miracle, really."

[–] • 1 pt

Did he feel like they were just expecting him to accept what he was told and not to dig for too many details?

[–] • 1 pt

I honestly think most people don't think about being overcharged $20 for a straw in your cup at meal time. It's crazy

[–] • 0 pt

last couple times i've asked for an itemized bill they sent me to collections, used to have no issue doing that.

[–] • 1 pt

So I found out that a hospital sending any bill to collections is actually a violation and contacted a credit company about it and had the bills erased from my credit history. Not sure if this is a state by state thing or not, but that definitely seems illegal what they did in your case.

[–] • 1 pt

I got one for like $1.27 or something stupid. The hospital never contacted me, just sent it off to collections and I had some guy calling me weekly trying to get me to pay. I would go on and on about being broke, try to negotiate payments, demanded physical paperwork. This went on for months until he caught me in a mood to take care of it.