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Oh, that's unfortunately quite common in the States -- the hospital itself might be in your network, but their own ER docs, etc. are technically contract employees who are not. So then you get out-of-network bills.
Imagine trying to sort through all this when, for example, you're having trouble breathing and need immediate medical care.
It's f**ked up, bad, and has been for years.
Remember when the liars were telling us that we wouldn't be able to choose our doctors without private insurance? We still cannot choose our doctors and also the ones chosen for us cost hundreds of thousands.
Speaking of which, remember this whopper?
Apparently he's more comfortable with insurance company executives doing it.
Not only are claim denials the real "death panels," but all the same people saying that shit then told us our grandparents must die for the stock market in 2020. Constant liars and hypocrites.
And the other side is also fucked up. I have a family member who has been a doctor in the US and Canada.
In the US, each doctor had two full-time employees just working on that doctor's billing. In Canada, his clinic of four doctors had one person working part-time doing the billing to our government health insurance.
This needs context. Was his clinic in Canada understaffed, or did Canadian health insurance paperwork require considerably less time to process?
His clinic in Canada didn't need anything more than one person working half time to process all of its doctors' paperwork to submit to the provincial health system.