Need advice

[momoftwoboys]

Has anyone ever tried to fight a medical bill? I was just wondering because, to make a long story short, I ended up with no results from a recent echocardiogram. I had the echo done at the hospital here (instead of at my regular cardiologist's office which is 5 hours away). I ended up with 3 different results from the person who read it here and so I had the tape sent to my regular cardios office and they couldn't even give me any results because my heart was beating so irregularly (bijemminy). So, now I owe around $500.00 to the hospital here (after insurance) and about $400.00 to my regular cardio's office (also after insurance) and I don't even have any real results. And they want me to come back for another echo in May. I can't afford to be doing this. I'm also not an argumentative or persuading kind of person. I'm afraid if I try to voice what I think, they are going to laugh in my face. I don't want to make anyone upset, especially my cardilogist since I really do think he is a great person. Should I pursue anything or just suck it up and make the payments?

[Lauren]

I would definitly call and freak out...Give me their number and I will pretend i am you. HAHA! No seriously I would say something especially since you've already been in there numerous times.

[Lisa V]

Let me get this straight...........................
Your cardiologist just read the results from the echo that was performed from another Dr.s office, so why are they charging you for the test? I think your Dr. should have just read the test for free not for $400.00. That sounds totally rediculous. I definitely would say something about that for sure. Please let men know what happens

[momoftwoboys]

O.K., I'm not even sure if I'm interpreting this right, but it shows three different charges...one for a doppler echocardiogram/$153.00, one for echocardiogram interp-offsite/$316.00 and one for doppler color flow VEL mapping/$188.70. My insurance paid $59.25 and $59.49 for this claim??? Now I owe (on top of the $400.00 I still owe my hospital here for the same echo) a $459.92 deductible and a $79.74 co-pay (and I never even got a real result). Do I write a letter to administation of the hospital here, at my cardio's office or neither? I don't understand all of this and am not going for any more tests until this is all figured out!