I just opened a hospital bill

[spinbaby]

I’m not sure what it was for exactly because the bill didn’t actually say, but I’ve done a lot of routine medical things in my local hospital system—check up, shingles shot, mammogram, etc,.

Anyway, I racked up $768 in random charges and then there were assorted insurance payments and a credit for something. The bottom line was that I owed them $0.01. Yes, they sent me a bill for one cent.

[cherryinpa]

1. Silly

Based on various business metrics, probably cost them $28 to mail it to you.

This is where a lot of the fraud, waste and abuse in our medical system occurs.

[Moostache]

5. Not to mention the profits that have to be tacked on to raise the bottom line...

For-profit healthcare should be the target.

Our message should be focused on removing the abuse and profits and unnecessary, non-medical treatment spending in the system. Yes, I realize that may be disruptive to a lot of people initially, but moving away from the current insanity is the only sane choice...falling for the "death panel gang's" constant nonsense is not a path forward, its a treadmill designed to exhaust resistance only.

[Rider3]

2. Yeah

sounds about right....

[ret5hd]

3. Visit the hospital billing dept, bring only a $100 bill.

Ask for $99 in ones and 99 pennies.

[lark]

4. They obviously had a glitch in the system.

Where I worked before, we had a part of the set up that we wouldn't send any patient bill under $5.00, but sometimes weird things happened which caused a statement to generate in error when adjustments hit within a few minutes before the billing runs started. It was very aggravating, as the manager of the dept., having to handle irate calls about penny bills, so I finally got IT to install another edit on the back end to kick out these small balance bills that snuck through.

[safeinOhio]

6. Send em a buck and

tell em ya keep da change.

[nykym]

7. Just send them

a penny tapped to a copy of the bill.

[lastlib]

10. If ya REALLY want to mess with 'em, send 'em TWO pennies!

[nykym]

11. Back in my college days

i had a friend who always paid his utility bills adding 1 cent.
Back then they were required to keep that 1 cent on the books.
Drove them crazy.
Now they don't have to.

[Lefta Dissenter]

8. Call and ask for a payment plan 😆

OK, I’m only kidding, because whoever answers the phone probably has more important things to do than deal with people jerking therm around, but it’s still funny inside my own head!

[Generic Brad]

9. Don't complain and give them your two cents

Why pay double when you don't have to?

[area51]

12. Would you be interested in posting a screenshot

without any personal identifying info? I might know someone on Twitter who would be willing to retweet this insanity.