The January harvest of physical mail included a Quest Diagnostics bill for $5.86 (maybe the third paper one they’ve mailed out regarding this McDonald’s sandwich (not meal)-sized bill; they have a credit card on file and when I tried to pay it by bill number on their web site it couldn’t be found).
More remarkably, I got an insurance statement, addressed to my late mother, about an X-ray that my father purportedly had. Dad died in 2021 (right after getting the second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot), so I was a little surprised to get health care paperwork four years after the fact. On closer inspection, however, the statement was 10 years after the care event.
It says THIS IS NOT A BILL; presumably it is a statement.
$5,500 “submitted charges” for an x-ray in 2015 sounds expensive!!
(and it would be at least double in today’s dollars)
I recently got a statement for $1,200 for my child’s hand x-ray plus another $1,200 for the 15-minute specialist visit; I thought that was expensive but I guess it’s “cheap” compared to this one. Because we’re on a high-deductible plan our “liability” is about 67% of the total amount.
I still need to figure out whether these are reasonable prices to pay – or should I conmplain to some gov. agency (before Mr. Musk fires everybody!)
@G hangin there Trump will fix all of these. Golden era has begun