[QUOTE=alemorkam;2383908]Has anyone been successful in fighting Medicare to pay a bill from a Canadian Hospital. We are on our third appeal and have had no luck. Was airlifted from a cruise ship to a Canadian Hospital and Medicare refuses to pay the bill of around $!00,000.00.[/QUOTE
Last month I needed an MRI here in Florida. The hospital billed about $3,600 for that. Medicare paid $69. BC/BS will pay a couple hundred. The hospital is NOT allowed to bill me for the rest. That’s why Medicare doesn’t pay for medical service in foreign countries. It often pays 10% of the bill and says the hospital can’t bill the patient for more than what the co-insurance pays. Foreign hospitals want to get paid whatever they charge. And MedEvacs are wildly expensive, even in this country.
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