Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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This is crazy re: prescriptions. I wonder how accurate it is?
It's probably true. Years ago when I went to college for medical billing and coding, it was taught in our class that a 'paying' customer would pay the highest price for a procedure, while a person with insurance would pay a little less in price, and then a medicare or medicaid person would have a set price from the government. It doesn't sound fair, but that's the way the system works.
Thanks for this added info. I have some friends that are part of co-ops that are required to get the cash price from the providers. They say that often they will get a lower price for service & then tell the provider that their co-op will be paying that price within 30 days.
I have been amazed at some of the prices they have told me. Once they were quoted about 30% of what others were seeing on their bills. I figured it could be some sort of insurance gift, though didn't look into it any filurther to verify anything.
I had always thought that a person who was paying cash for a procedure, whether up front or by an arranged payment, would get a discount. I think it should be the same for insurance and paying customers. But it's like the paying cash customer gets penalized by paying full price or to me an added penalty while insurance price is adjusted. I can understand the medicare and medicaid as medicare is taken out of an account you paid into all your working life and medicaid is federally funded, so to stretch the dollar amount in these accounts, they are paid by a government preset amount. So I can understand that part.