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I’m not usually one to complain, but Northwestern Medicine is exemplary of all that is wrong with our failed healthcare system in the US. I went to the urgent care for a 1 hour procedure, which was billed to me at $1,750. The medical code billed, CPT 93971 is reimbursed by Medicare at $128. My healthcare system in Detroit would charge $120 for the same procedure.
Northwestern Medicine takes advantage of a system where insurance companies are contracted, oftentimes, to pay these outrageous claims. The insurance company turns around and bills us, the customer, in the form of outrageous premiums. And there you have the disaster that is our healthcare system.
My high deductible insurance means I’m stuck with this outrageous bill. They have sent me to collections. Northwestern Medicine is a scheister of a company that exists to take advantage of the horrible incentive structure we have in healthcare.
I would advise anyone to select the urgent care across the street, a provider that actually has scruples and brings benefit to the DeKalb community.