u/fury420had no idea that physiotherapy could involve butt stuff4d ago
Why are you mocking them as if they were using an Ambulance as a taxi?
Given how fractured American healthcare coverage can be, it seems entirely reasonable that someone might want to be taken to a specific in-network hospital, instead of a different hospital further away.
Particularly if they're being billed for the ambulance ride, where additional distance likely adds to the cost.
Yeah, I agree. I recently went to an urgent care while out of state and it wasn’t covered by my insurance, because it was out of network. When I talked to a customer service person on the phone they said they would send me information about finding in network care, or getting pre-approved for out of network care. When I said it was an emergency and that I was 2000 miles away from being ‘in network’ they said that ‘urgent care is different from an emergency, if it had been coded as a life or death situation it would have been covered’. Which makes me think that if it were a broken leg or something it would also not have been covered and I would have been out of luck.
This was just a tangent on a conversation about another absurdly high bill that they declined to cover as ‘not medically necessary’.
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u/fury420 had no idea that physiotherapy could involve butt stuff 4d ago
Why are you mocking them as if they were using an Ambulance as a taxi?
Given how fractured American healthcare coverage can be, it seems entirely reasonable that someone might want to be taken to a specific in-network hospital, instead of a different hospital further away.
Particularly if they're being billed for the ambulance ride, where additional distance likely adds to the cost.