Medical Billing & Coding, and your money . . .

Here’s an interesting article on medical billing and coding.  It makes what hospitals do, when there isn’t a government payment or insurance company involved, look fraudulent.

As a side note the billing practices of hospitals, if they are in fact as described in the article, might be a reason why so frequently any hospitalization at all without insurance is a personal financial disaster which leads to a bankruptcy — or used to before the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention (spit) Act.

Wonder what happens if some hotshot class action attorney hooks up with some medical billing and coding expert witnesses and goes after some of the big corporate hospitals?  I know what I would want to do if I were on a jury in the face of testiimony that anybody is billed anything at all for a little paper pill cup.
Also, it makes St. Hillary of New York’s disastrous little foray into rank, coercive socialism (Pardon me, I mean, national single payer medical insurance) look a whole lot less arrogant and confiscatory after all.  When compared.