Friend of mine got hit with 49,000 bill - insurance pd 20,000

[leftyladyfrommo]

What really got me was that her treatment was preapproved - Coventry Insurance Co.

She went in at six in the morning and was back home by three. Total bill was $49,000. The bill for the MRI was $6,000. One doctor received $107. One doctor got $1,000. I guess the rest was just from the hospital.

I think the hospital will just write off most of their bill. But none of this makes any sense at all.

$6,000 for an MRI?

Course it costs me $100 just to go into the clinic and get my blood pressure checked and get a prescription. I don't have insurance. Probably the bill to an insurance company would be half what I pay.

They always say you should have all of these prevntative tests. But the tests are so expensive no one can afford them. I think a mammogram is $175. I can feed myself for over a month for that.