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Originally Posted by puggymom  I was about to say didn't someone post something about tort reform and how well it was working in Texas? |
Without tort reform, doctors and hospitals are performing tests and procedures to CYA. We look at our bills very carefully as my wife is a cancer survivor and my mother-in-law had open heart surgery and was on dialysis three times a week before she passed. Unfortunately we get lots of those bills; fortunately, we have insurance.
We would get stupid items on the bill such as 'pregnancy tests' for $165 for an 83 year old woman! When questioned about the bill, the hospital told us it was standard procedure required by insurance companies. Stupid.
I realize some doctors are gaming the system, believe me. We don't blindly file away our copies of the bills our insurance companies obligingly send to us. If a doctor hasn't provided services they've claimed, we protest the item to Medicare/Medicaid or the insurance company. The dialysis center was charging $1,300 a session for my mother-in-law and was claiming they provided the service a week after we buried her!