Why are hospitals/clinics suddenly charging twice for the same service?

It's all about your insurance coverage. If the plan changed, to allow copayments every step of the way, that's how it is.

It's not the hospital/clinic - it's your insurance plan.

I don't really know if this is a state to state charge but it's been this way in mine for a long time. Hospitals say there losing money because out patient surgery's are the think now. So they have to do something to make more money. And also insurance companies set the guild ling on how test surgery if you need it how many days you can stay. A Friend of mine had open heart surgery, and was sent home in three days. I was very surprised, cheaper to send him home with home health care then stay in the hospital.

Yes it is legit.

Obviously your insurance changed its policy. If they say it's legit, then that's that.

I've been on the same PPO insurance plan for 10 years and I've always been charged two separate copays -- one for the procedure, and one for the radiologist. The scan or xray is billed by the hospital, the radiologist bills separately.

Hospitals and clinics are not charging twice. Rather, the MRI center charges for its portion of the service provided, and the radiologist charges separately for his portion of services provided. That means you get two co-pays, since you had two separate services provided. This is similar to having a surgery procedure performed in a hospital. You get one bill from the hospital and another from the attending surgeon, and you are faced with two co-pays. Frankly, you are fortunate that you had only one co-pay in the past.

No, it grew to become into an unsuitable transaction. as a exchange of faxing your fact returned, initiate by utilising organizing your information and make a decision to the workplace of the president of the employer. do no longer call for to speak to the president, yet ask in a well mannered way and write down the call and phone of the guy to whom you talk. clarify which you have talked a number of cases to shopper provider and characteristic no longer gotten a suitable reaction and then (or whilst asked) clarify what got here approximately in the keep. you ought to additionally touch the economic institution and placed them on observe. this is, by utilising the way, one clarification for paying with a mastercard. in case you had achieved so, as a exchange of arguing this your self, the mastercard employer could have blocked the double value and argued for you.

call your insurance company.