• @ChicoSuave
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    207 months ago

    Administrative costs but I imagine insurance and health care costs for those employees. Lack of affordable/open medical care costs are passed on to the customers.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        7 months ago

        This is why the Republicans were so against the goverment-payer option for Obamacare. Not “because socialism,” but because about 30 percent of the cost of healthcare in the US is actually the result of the middlemen, i.e. the private insurance companies in control of the entire system and their bureaucratic clusterfucks specifically designed to extract as much money as possible from both the patient and provider. A single payer or government option would reduce or eliminate that.

        30 percent.

        The entire private insurance industry at this point is just a make-work operation to increase the cost and complexity of health care for the sole purpose of benefiting… the private insurance industry.

        • @Donebrach
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          17 months ago
          1. Hospital charges $30,039.38 for therapeutic foot brace

          2. insurance has only agreed to accept $4,382.40 as a charge for therapeutic foot brace

          3. hospital graciously charges only $7,930.38 for Ergonomic Footrapche (miscoded), but will cut a deal and only charge $1,293.39 for Foot Brace, non-therapeutic.

          4. Doctor prescribes Froobthrag Ultramnuntixx

          5. Patient doesn’t know what’s happening; is told to make their own decision.

          6. Patient receives a foot wrap

          7. Patient receives a bill for $17,383.29 for Threnmgrotminexx and a $30 copay for seeing a preferred provider.

          Thank you!

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        There was a time when paperwork and such was defensible.

        Now, if carriers had a lick of sense, they’d realize that forms are dirt cheap online; and that it’s drastically less expensive just to pay the claim vs fighting it.

        They don’t, of course, because mergers and sole-source pharmacies for “scary” meds, but that’s neither here nor there.

        Whole idea of PBMs is wrong, offensive, and has set back my care. Know who should manage my pharmacy benefits, my fucking doctor. Full stop.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      You are assuming they get healthcare. Dangerous assumption these days, as the ACA has been carved down.