Back Surgery

Ok, so I finally received my bills for the back surgery. Thinking that I would have a 250.00 inpatient copay I was surprised when I received bills for another outpatient back surgery I had the same day.

WHAT?? My surgeon decided to admit me to the hospital for 2 days turning my back surgery into an inpatient stay. Then that same surgeon decided to get a little more money out of me and bill that same surgery as outpatient.

Well needless to say I am mad. I have made 2 calls to the insurance carrier, and 1 to the surgeons office. Both have said to me, are you sure you were inpatient?

YES! I think I would remember these things. I really did not have that many pain killers while in house to distort the memory of the nurses or the horrible IV and bad bed. Yet I may be lying about being inpatient, or maybe I am just confused(my surgeons office said these things).

The final call to my insurance carrier was a little curt. I told them that they need to contact my surgeon's office and ask them why they are billing fraudulently. (That really got the insurance guy to listen) Because the second insurance specialist can physically see the 13,000.00 dollar inpatient hospital bill that spans a 2 day time period. He finally got it!!

Needless to say if I did not have a background in medical insurance I probably would have paid the incorrect bill!!

Hopefully this will get reconciled, because I refuse to pay the outpatient surgery bill!!!