lilith663 asked:

I’ve worked in insurance & the medical field & the fraud that goes on is a huge cause of high ins costs. More should be done to crack down on the people & institutions committing the fraud.

In the hospital I worked at, during a surgery case you maybe used two strips of elastoplast to hold a dressing on. The patient is charged for the whole role. This was also the case with regular tape.

My friend had a C-section & had to pay it all for lack of ins. She went over the bill & got $700 taken off it. They had charged her for a certain medication 3 x a day & she only took 2 pills. They charged her for sitz baths for her episiotomy, which she never had because she had a c-section. She found a few other discrepancies also. If you don’t see your bill, your ins co may be being charged for things you didn’t even receive.

People who milk dbl and workers comp claims are ridiculous. They don’t show up for exams causing more paperwork, etc., all costing money.

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Micheala #1 Fan of WDPLM-2 asked:

I like his ideas regarding herbal and alternative medicines, but I am concerned about the eldery in United States. They seem to have been neglected in favor of “welfare” recipients.

I am sick of welfare fraud and abuse of medical care in this country – who is looking out for the eldery? The dems give it minorities, welfare lifers, etc., rep create more paperwork and increase costs…

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Jolly asked:


I had a severe allergic reaction at work a couple of weeks ago and I was rushed by ambulance to the hospital. When I left I noticed the paperwork they gave me had an incorrect address (street spelled wrong and city was wrong). I called them up and corrected the mistakes and gave them my insurance info over the phone since I didn’t have it with me in the ER. The woman on the phone said I would get a bill in a week or so. Does this cover the ambulance ride too? I’m worried that somehow I’ve overlooked something and it will end up on my credit report because they couldn’t find me with the wrong address. The ambulance that picked me up was not associated specifically with the hospital I went to. Do I need to make some more phone calls to get this resolved? I have never had anything like this happen to me before.

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ckwtime asked:


It seems that my medi-cal is approved in the county system, but when the hospital goes to bill, the state system says I am not elligible. I have talked to so many people and keep getting the run around. I went down there in person and they said they would fix it and give me a call. It’s been 2 days now.

Has this happened to anyone else? Are they quick to fix mistakes like this?

I’m pregnant, and I have submitted all of the paperwork, so I know it’s just a clerical error on their part. I just want to stop stressing about this already.

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