"Are you considering suicide or harming yourself?"
"No."
— adds 40$ to your bill —
"How about now?"
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"Let me see your finger." Prick "That'll be 30 dollars."
It cost 350 to have your age estimated on a previous visit?! And they only got a range from 18-39?!
Outrageous
"so how have you been" as they walk into the room, and don't bother waiting for an answer before asking why you're ~~bothering them~~ here today.
There's your emotional assessment. That'll be $40.
Honestly if I saw this on my bill if be calling my doctor directly to ask what the actual fuck this bullshit is.
Just call billing and refute it and they will immediately take it off. They know it's bullshit but they also hope you won't notice or call them on it.
How is this shit legal? Do you not have laws in the USA?
Lol, the insurance companies pay off the government to make laws that favor them. We are just a third-world country with money.
I thought it said beehaw
”On a scale of 1 to 10, how often do you think about killing yourself?”
“Uhhh… 3?”
”That’ll be $40”
"And how long ago was your last doctor's visit?"
"Uh, 7-ish years ago?"
" Great. That'll be $350."
Got charged $100 for "dental hygiene training" during annual dentist visit after dentist walked in and asked "Do you floss?" - "Yes." - "Good. Floss every day." and walked out. I only know of this charge because insurance refused to pay and they sent the bill to me. I know it's definitely about these two utterances because this was the only interaction I had with this doctor at all. Everything else was performed by dental students.
I now refuse to answer any questions that do not directly pertain to the immediate procedure.
Please tell me you didn't have to pay that bill
I had to, I just didn't.
Based
Damn. This has to be late stage capitalism. Please, I can't handle any more capitalism.
The worst thing is this shows the awful racket between healthcare providers and insurance companies. “Provider billed” means “insurance paid.”
“Yeah we had to hit some arbitrary numbers to break through your insurance’s limit that both orgs will write off before we actually charged you with the real 2000 dollar bill”
If you want to see how arbitrary the charges are in the American medical system, just call them up once you get a bill. Not to complain, not to dispute, just say "can I get an itemized bill where you tell me exactly what you did and what each thing you did cost me?". That, on its own, will cut your bill in half. For profit medicine has made it so no one has any idea what anything costs, so negotiations on price begin after you've accepted the service and they've completed it. Providers do secret deals with insurance companies so that what something costs depends on who's paying for it, to an extent where sometimes it's cheaper to just pay out of pocket because for some reason that will never make sense your insurance company agreed to (make you) pay extra for that procedure.
Emotions....check
Behaviors....check
Error: emotions.dll missing
What qualifies this Dr to make a psychological evaluation? Am I going to ask the librarian if I have flat feet? 🤦🏻♂️
Well I'm pretty sure they studied some psychology at the very least the general education psychology classes
In europe: "Do you need that surgery to survive/live your life normally?"
"Yes"
"Ok, then it's free"
In the us: "Do you need that surgery to survive/live your life normally?"
"Yes"
"That'll be 999,999.99$"
I'm waiting for them to start quoting The Rules of Acquisition.
Rule number 23: Nothing is more important than your health… except for your money.
I got charged $125 for a nurse to give me 15 minutes of therapy. Out of pocket, while having insurance.
How ya doin'?
Well, I...
Great! That'll be $40!
I guess I'm feeling poorly...
I see about 4 different specialist and 3/4 if them attempted to bill Medicare for having me fill out six questions and them adding it up until I put a stop to it. They all knew I have seen the same psychiatrist for 12 years. They would never bring up the inventory.
Doctor: Have you had any recent suicidal thoughts?
Patient: No.
Doctor: Good. That'll be $40.