Got a plain paper print-out in the mail with "medical services ----- 1,234.56." He called again I said, "you're gonna have to do better than that. He never called again, it was BS. Wonder how he even got my details?
There are price sheets with unique codes on them that are used for billing in hospitals. These price sheets are used for a provider (hospital) to send to your payor (your insurance). They have the minimum amount of information on them to get the insurance company to pay their portion. They are not set up for the actual human being being treated to understand or find them useful. It's a systemic problem with the way the industry is configured. Good luck changing it.
Super frustrating, but medical billing is so complex, it feels like it's intended to make the patient give up and simply accept whatever charges are present, and not even attempt to verify bills are correct.
Nobody would accept a single line bill from a mechanic for "car repairs", yet somehow that's standard for the black check of financial liability we sign up for when we see providers.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/24/7354323...
One account from 2017 on the subject: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-06/millions-...