https://youtu.be/0H89RuK8xqY
SOURCE: Hospital Billing | True Cost of Healthcare
“When a business sends a bill, to you or to another business, you pretty much expect the bill to show the value of what they provided, and therefore what they expect to be paid. But an insurance company pays the hospital based on pre negotiated rates, no matter what the bill asks for……………”
“So because the hospitals know that they’ll only ever get less than what they bill, the process of hospital billing has stopped being a normal business transaction, and turned into something more like a kid daydreaming about his Christmas list. But it works, (well, not really), as long as it’s just a game between the hospital and the insurance company.”
