How Much are Covid-19 Medical Bills?

[geekette]

Since the ACA was passed, there are very few plans with limits on max benefits.

Kurt

Yes. But also very few 100% coinsurance. Last I had was 2013.

 

[Grammarhero]

Both wife and I had $40 copays each for our primary medical visits, positive covid tests, and initial hospital consults in which I was denied hospital admission despite losing 17 lbs. My inhaler and medications were $20 co-pay, but wife didn’t need them. So wife and I were out $100, but we each got two weeks paid leave per Coronavirus Response and Family First Bill and the stimulus refund.

 

[Passepartout]

Since the ACA was passed, there are very few plans with limits on max benefits.

Kurt

Those short-term 'interim' health insurance policies like those George (Bogie) has purchased for his adult kids- and I bought for my DW and me to 'bridge' the time between when I had mostly employer-paid insurance and Medicare kicked in at 65 only paid 50% of the bill AFTER a several thousand dollar 'deductible' AND they capped out at something like a $million lifetime benefit. All they are is CHEAP. As insurance, they aren't much. They might keep you out of bankruptcy. Or might not.

Jim

 

[DrQ]

Since the ACA was passed, there are very few plans with limits on max benefits.

Kurt

It has been a while since I reviewed policies, so the lifetime max could have been removed. Last I remember, it was capped at 2 million, but that was a LONG time ago. There was not a pandemic illness that could put you in the ICU for weeks at a time.

 

[geekette]

It has been a while since I reviewed policies, so the lifetime max could have been removed. Last I remember, it was capped at 2 million, but that was a LONG time ago. There was not a pandemic illness that could put you in the ICU for weeks at a time.

Depends on company/group as to when that disappeared, maybe? I had lifetime caps of around $1 (at least once it was scary low $500k) until ACA. I was on employer plans, so I don't know how it was with private plans or the choice of insurer.

 

[MULTIZ321]

An Austin doctor got a COVID-19 test from his own company. They billed his insurance company nearly $ 11,000.

An Austin doctor got a COVID-19 test from his own company. They billed his insurance company nearly $11,000

Physicians Premier ER charged Dr. Zachary Sussman's insurance $10,984 for his COVID-19 antibody test even though Sussman worked for the chain and knows the testing materials only cost about $8. Even more surprising: The insurer paid in full.

www.texastribune.org

Richard

 

[am1]

An Austin doctor got a COVID-19 test from his own company. They billed his insurance company nearly $ 11,000.

An Austin doctor got a COVID-19 test from his own company. They billed his insurance company nearly $11,000

Physicians Premier ER charged Dr. Zachary Sussman's insurance $10,984 for his COVID-19 antibody test even though Sussman worked for the chain and knows the testing materials only cost about $8. Even more surprising: The insurer paid in full.

www.texastribune.org

Richard

Glad I have no part of that corruption.

 

[Brett]

An Austin doctor got a COVID-19 test from his own company. They billed his insurance company nearly $ 11,000.

An Austin doctor got a COVID-19 test from his own company. They billed his insurance company nearly $11,000

Physicians Premier ER charged Dr. Zachary Sussman's insurance $10,984 for his COVID-19 antibody test even though Sussman worked for the chain and knows the testing materials only cost about $8. Even more surprising: The insurer paid in full.

www.texastribune.org

Richard

expensive test

my mother was in the hospital last month for a couple of tests - "X-rays" The bill paid by Blue Cross and Medicare was $22,300 !!!