The business office of our local hospital volunteered that they offer a 20% cash discount for MRIs. (I did not ask, but I imagine it is available for other procedures, too.) The cash discount doesn’t surprise me. The 20% certainly does, though. Simply stated, if one pays for an MRI at the time the work [...]
After spending almost an hour on the phone with our pharmacist, my wife’s neurologist’s office and several employees of our health insurance company, I took a break before writing a letter to appeal the insurance company’s decision to deny the neurologist’s appeal of the insurance company’s refusal to authorize payment for another year. I wrote [...]
