When Dani Yuengling felt a lump in her right breast last summer, she tried to ignore it. She was 35, the same age her mother had been when she received a...
A hospital’s online “Patient Payment Estimator” showed that an uninsured patient would owe about $1,400 for the procedure.
But the hospital wouldn’t give her a price. She was told her providers wouldn’t know what type of biopsy needle they needed until the procedure was underway and that would affect the price. “We can very confidently say this is very common,” said Bai, who advised that all patients, regardless of their insurance status, inquire about the cash price before undergoing a procedure. “It should be a norm.”
The hospital removed certain procedures from the payment estimator until they can be corrected, Preusser wrote. She did not say how long that would take.Yuengling tried disputing the charges with the hospital. She called the billing department and was offered a 36% discount, lowering the amount she needed to pay to $3,306.29.
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