Hospital Billing Fraud

I visited a doctor and was told that my bill was $65.00 This happened around March. I paid it full. I got a bill in the mail this week saying that the procedure, which I was told was 65 and paid it full, is now 101.53, and I still need to pay 36.53 dollars more. Is this fraud? Can they really do this?

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I have health insurance through my employment and another insurance through my mom’s. I just had a procedure earlier today and asked the registrar upfront before the procedure of they could co-bill both insurances at the same time, and she adviced not to, and adviced me to let all my doctors know that i have another insurance, and that i would be in big trouble. i really am confused on what’s going on. can anyone help me please? thanks
I appreciate all the info guys. the thing is that I use my mom’s insurance as my primary since all the facilities and providers I see and get my procedures done are under the same name, and my mom works in a hospital under the same name.
I guess what I really want to know is what I need to do at this point to avoid getting into trouble.
I remember giving BOTH insurance information in one procedure way back (blood draw) but still paid the same co-pay amount for my mom’s insurance.

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Fraud. Theft. And the blind leading the blind in Government managed
medical care. MEDICARE and MEDICADE. If you stopped these
two factors involving The above. You could afford to cover every man
woman child in this country with the best care in the world. But he
will not go after the failed entitlements of the Democratic Past.

Whats your thought America.

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I was in a car accident where a guy slammed on his brakes when I was making a lane change. This happened in 2006 and I was told that I was not at fault because he braked due to an accident within a certain distance in front of him. Now on this billing cycle in 2008 they raised my insurance. When I called they said it was due to that accident. They had settled. There was 1500 dollars in damages to his car, bumper and paint job and medical of 24000 dollars. The accident was less than 10 miles per hour. Neither one of our airbags deployed. My insurance company never even contacted me saying that they were shifting fault.

Can I prove that it is an insurance fraud after the insurance settled?

I don’t see anyway that 24000 dollars of medical bills is possible.

Do I have any investigation avenues?
I was driving a Hyundia Accent and he was driving a Buick Rendez Vous SUV..

I am in California

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Read the Intelligence Report in the 2-20-08 edition of Parade Magazine. Medicare’s budget is 400 billion dollars. The article says 70 billion dollars were paid out in fraudulent claims. That’s 17.5%. Do you still think government run health insurance is a good idea? If the US government ran a program for everyone, what would the budget be? two trillion?
What would be the amount of fraud? 350 billion dollars if the fraud rate stays the same.

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