Ask for itemized bill, dispute every single item https://www.aarp.org/money/cred...

freedomben · on Oct 14, 2020

That's both a very useful post, and also enraging that we would have to do something like that to protect ourselves from getting raped by the system.

dylan604 · on Oct 14, 2020

watch what happens to that bill when you tell them you are going to pay out of pocket instead of using insurance. suddenly, everything has a different price.

freedomben · on Oct 14, 2020

I've heard this before and so I tried it, but unfortunately it was not true in my case. They didn't seem to give a crap about that. In one case they actually told me "you should run it through insurance so you get their negotiated price. otherwise it will a lot more expensive"