A fully-insured Wisconsin woman may soon have to file for bankruptcy after she suffered cardiac arrest and was taken, while unconscious, to an emergency room that wasn't in her healthcare network.
Though Madison's St. Mary's Hospital was just three blocks away from where Megan Rothbauer was in September 2013 when she had a heart attack at just 29, it's not part of her Blue Cross-Blue Shield network.
Now, as Rothbauer recovers from the 10 days she spent in a medically-induced coma and the other six days she spent in a cardiac unit, she must also contend with whether she'll ever recover from its $50,000 price tag.
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7 comments:
Idiots abound. What more can be said?
Not a problem. Just sue the ambulance company. It will bounce around the courts until Obamacare is obsolete.
This points to a real problem in the health-care insurance industry.....
There should be no such thing as 'out-of-network' when it comes to ER or visits when you are not able to inform the transporter.
Maybe this is one of the things the newly elected majority can fix....ya, right!
The problem is greed.
Fact is her health care paid "in network" benefits to all those who treated her.
But the doctors and hospital do not have to waive the balance.
If they participated with her ins co. they would have to waive the balance and accept what they were paid.
Therefore the problem actually lies with the doctors who will not waive the balance. That's greed.
Example - There is a surgery group locally that does not take Aetna, everyone else does... why? Shortsightedness, stupidity and greed.
Thieves, crooks, and liars the lot of them.
9:39 Not everyone accepts Aetna. Medical practices are still a business and have the right to decide if they will negotiate with any insurance co.
About the ambulance, though, they have no way to know what insurance an unconcious patient has or who is in network.
I believe it is in the patient's best interest to take them to the closest hospital when they are in cardiac arrest!
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