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In reply to the discussion: The only way to control soaring healthcare costs is to have single payer [View all]OKNancy
(41,832 posts)My latest story:
First, Blue Cross has paid over 185,000 this year for my husband. We have a shitty bronze policy.
One thing that Blue Cross would not cover is some feeding tube formula. This is like unflavored Boost or Ensure.
It is used for my husbands nutrition until he can swallow ( he can now!) or he feels like eating food.
He can eat if he wants, but chemo and radiation makes everything tasteless, so he refuses to eat "real" food.
The doctor ordered this formula for us but I said that I didn't want it unless insurance paid for it.
On the invoice we got in the hospital before checking out, it said "paid by insurance"
So a day or two later we got 8 cases of the stuff delivered to our door.
Two months later we get a bill for the stuff. $722.00!! I call up the Medical supply company and said I want to return half of it and get a credit as he hadn't needed it and.... IT SELLS AT AMAZON FOR almost one quarter the price. They refused to take it back. They said they couldn't guarantee it was stored correctly, blah blah.
So per unit the stuff with the Medical Supply Company was $3.98. Ordered on amazon.com it was $1.04 per unit.
I'm leaving out the name of the company, but if anyone in Tulsa wants to know, PM me.