My surgeon just wrote off my bill!

[samomom 19]

Totally out of the blue yesterday I get a call from my surgeon's office. The secretary told me that he decided to accept the out of network insurance payment plus the $550 I paid the week before which was a total of $2000. I originally was going to owe him $9600. She said christmas came early! No sh!t I said. I am so thrilled. I went into this knowing that he charged $9600 for his fee plus whatever the OON Blue Cross payment would be and I had no issue with that. He expects that people will pay over time and doesn't even have a set payment schedule. Its all bases on your good faith payments. I was going to pay it off over the next 6 months. I guess he made a good deal of money this year and needed a write off or something. I don't know or care, but its gonna make the tax return go to much better places!

Melissa

[reverie 49]

Congrats!! I bet you're so happy.

[LapBandBobbi 8]

Nice! Props to your doc!

[ElfiePoo 109]

Indeed...props to the doc! I'd write that man a thank you!

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[Phranp 46]

WOW! That's fantastic! You went to Dr. Liu, right? I KNEW I liked that man! LOL What a wonderful surprise for you!

BTW, thanks again for sharing the info about the focus group. It was interesting.

~Fran

[DizzyGirl 0]

So happy for you! That is awesome.

[timeisnow2010 1]

Totally out of the blue yesterday I get a call from my surgeon's office. The secretary told me that he decided to accept the out of network insurance payment plus the $550 I paid the week before which was a total of $2000. I originally was going to owe him $9600. She said christmas came early! No sh!t I said. I am so thrilled. I went into this knowing that he charged $9600 for his fee plus whatever the OON Blue Cross payment would be and I had no issue with that. He expects that people will pay over time and doesn't even have a set payment schedule. Its all bases on your good faith payments. I was going to pay it off over the next 6 months. I guess he made a good deal of money this year and needed a write off or something. I don't know or care, but its gonna make the tax return go to much better places!

Melissa

[timeisnow2010 1]

Wow Congrats that is a wonderful christmas gift and Good luck with everything .

[samomom 19]

WOW! That's fantastic! You went to Dr. Liu, right? I KNEW I liked that man! LOL What a wonderful surprise for you!

BTW, thanks again for sharing the info about the focus group. It was interesting.

~Fran

Yep, Dr.Liu rocks!

What did you think about the focus group? Not so sure the concept will be successful. Too many other products on the market already.

[Phranp 46]

I agree ... the products they want to create have pretty much already been done. But it would be nice if they can come up with greater variety for us, so if they put it out there I'll give it a try!

~Fran

[spoiltmom 44]

Congrats!!! He probably took it b/c most insurances pay about $2K even in network. That's probably the average of what he gets anyway.

[samomom 19]

Congrats!!! He probably took it b/c most insurances pay about $2K even in network. That's probably the average of what he gets anyway.

Actually, he doesn't take insurance. He isn't in network for anyone. It's $18,800 cash or with insurance he charges $9600 plus whatever out of network payment your insurance will pay. Let's just say he isn't hurting, but that still doesn't mean he is obligated to write off such a huge amount. I am so thankful that he did though. I only paid $550 for him and probably $600 to the surgery center. Well worth the money!