That last one doesn’t happen any more. It’s called Surprise Medical Billing. Used to be that some providers would be out of network (thus requiring a separate bill) but now the law is that if an encounter is in network, the whole bill is in network.
Not specifically because they were out of network, but I definitely will get billed separately by “contractors” when going to an urgent care clinic. They had a separate contractor for radiology examinations or some shit. And I’ve definitely gotten bills for nursing, or supplies, or any kind of random shit that wasn’t technically covered by the original bill.
The medical community needs to come up with a better word than encounter. “Encountering” one’s doctor makes it sound like you should be filling a police report.
Also it results in billing codes like “sucked into jet engine subsequent encounter.”
That last one doesn’t happen any more. It’s called Surprise Medical Billing. Used to be that some providers would be out of network (thus requiring a separate bill) but now the law is that if an encounter is in network, the whole bill is in network.
I’m too lazy to do hyphens right now
Not specifically because they were out of network, but I definitely will get billed separately by “contractors” when going to an urgent care clinic. They had a separate contractor for radiology examinations or some shit. And I’ve definitely gotten bills for nursing, or supplies, or any kind of random shit that wasn’t technically covered by the original bill.
The medical community needs to come up with a better word than encounter. “Encountering” one’s doctor makes it sound like you should be filling a police report.
Also it results in billing codes like “sucked into jet engine subsequent encounter.”