why can't he just pay the doctor? seem reasonable to you?
I used to. I had a doctor, a urologist for kidney stones, he charged me $50 for the visit and $35 for x-rays. Now, he has to have a referral and since I now have insurance the visit costs me $125 and X-rays are a couple hundred dollars. This is all out of my pocket.
I know. the feds stuck their fingers in our business and it costs us more money. I was watching Tucker Carlson last night and he had on Charles Krauthammer and he agrees with me that tort reform is the only saving step to take. It's why you pay 125 today.
Yep, we need tort reform, insurance to have no borders, we need to simplify the way insurance works, standardize billing costs. The referral method is BS. I get stones, I know what to do, I need to make sure they are stones and maybe use some pain pills. But first I go to the standard doctor, he takes the urine, tests it and then he refers me to the urologist, who then takes a urine sample and then x-rays and then prescribes the pain pills. Crazy I have to go to two doctors to get the insurance to pay.