Anyone Want the Law to Stay on the Books?

[bill3173]

The billing department suggested buying the PCIP plan, paying a few months premium, and then if they can't afford the premium to drop the coverage, everything gets paid for pennies on the dollar. Seems the hospital is encouraging this ploy. Wonder how often this is being done?

Daily..................

 

[Norwayguy]

Recently spoke with a friend that doesn't have any coverage. She needs major back surgery quick. They met with the hospital and projected charges are 150,000. The billing department suggested buying the PCIP plan, paying a few months premium, and then if they can't afford the premium to drop the coverage, everything gets paid for pennies on the dollar. Seems the hospital is encouraging this ploy. Wonder how often this is being done?

Why not its no skin off the hospitals back (pun intended) and they get paid. No way they want to go the patient paying 150k it will take 30 years to get paid if they are lucky.

 

[somarco]

Recently spoke with a friend that doesn't have any coverage. She needs major back surgery quick. They met with the hospital and projected charges are 150,000. The billing department suggested buying the PCIP plan, paying a few months premium, and then if they can't afford the premium to drop the coverage, everything gets paid for pennies on the dollar. Seems the hospital is encouraging this ploy. Wonder how often this is being done?

Hospitals are not stupid (even though the folks in DC are). Makes a lot of sense to do this (even if PCIP is no longer paying a bounty.

 

[ABC]

The health care law benefits the hospitals.

Everyone is GI and most will qualify for Medicaid.

 

[SusieQ2]

Maybe the hospitals already know the outcome of the SCOTUS decision on the healthcare issue because Baylor is sure building a lot of new facilities in the Dallas area.

 

[somarco]

Quite a few new CVS drugstores here in Atlanta, as well as hospital expansion.

Don't think it has anything to do with Obamacare. More like aging baby boomers and Medicare.

 

[taterpeeler]

Love it when little liberals get bitter.... Boo hoo hoo.... Put it 3 inch headlines, this country ain't liberal... You got a pass in 08 because we sat at home.... This year we ain't sittin

 

[HealthGuy]

Al you cant help yourself...you little sneaky sniper.

 

[Dave020]

Single payor will put all health agents and their health insurance benefactors out of business.

As an old O'Henry fan, I am big on irony.

And isn't it ironic that the highest level of agent commission for selling a health insurance product to the public in CA (and elsewhere as well) is on the single payer health care system--Medicare? Apparently the single payer program for seniors is actually beneficial to health agents. Hmmmmm.

And what is even more ironic is that supplemental plans for the single payer system (Medicare) often pay less commission to the agent than the CMS-approved low- or zero-plan-premium Advantage plans .

 

[HealthGuy]

AL3 you are strokin' me brother and I love it ! I will take your compliment to the straight bank...cuz I'm not gay...thank you. Your posts aren't bad either, sometimes they bring a tear to my eye with laughter ! Everything with you is about Alabama back in 1950 or something, its hilarious because nobody knows what the hell you are referencing....I love you man, but you date yourself....You may be pleased to know that during college, (yea I'm a college grad believe it or not, BA in communication from a conservative private University) I had a stint at a neo con defense contractor penning their employee newsletter. You would have been proud of me pimping their corporate industrial complex killing machines...big tanks, big guns, big shiat! I'm sure at the time in their backrooms they were developing the drones your buddy Obama is using to kill a large Muslim population. Again, nothing personal, I like you AL - your posts just kill me!