Do I understand that these surgeons had a working agreement where all your costs were covered including their entire fee and the separate fee to a facility which they don't own was covered... and now they have built their own facility which will allow them to also collect the facility fee as well as the surgical fee? And that they are opening that new facility before they have cleared the requirements of the most common insurance with which they need to deal? And that as well all know insurance companies negotiate a much lower charge for the facility than what the non-insured are charged so in this time before approval they will make even more as no write off?
Anyone out there who had the surgery at Oak Hill, what was your facility fee after the insurance discount?
If you want this surgery and cost is a concern
1. Ask for an Oak Hill date when one becomes available. There are always patients who cancel at the last minute or fail their pre-op EKG or whatever. Be ready to fill in
2. Negotiate. Yes you can. The 13K is the asking price. You can be sure that they will not be getting anything near that once the Medicare discount kicks in.
3. Wait until they are approved.
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