Hoping to get pointed in the right general direction. We had an urgent care visit for a strep throat that we got billed $1500+ on. They're billing it as an emergency room visit, even though the place is an urgent care. Their explanation is that "after 6, we charge it as an ER visit."
We got billed for the room, doctor and care separately. And they spent the better part of a year trying to work around our insurance to bill us as hard as they possibly could.
Shopping around, the highest we should have expected to pay for this was $450. The extent of care was an IV, throat culture and discharge. They later noted, their minimum visit cost was $700 to get a room. FYI this seems to have predated needing to post this info visibly.
Was this legal robbery? And what options are there to dispute this?
Can we pay first, dispute later?
Submitted March 18, 2019 at 02:18PM by sadomasochrist https://ift.tt/2U0meWU
