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Social Security & Medicare

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7. Sounds like that is your share. Medicare likely paid the surgeon $500 or so and the facility got around $2,000.

Mon Aug 12, 2024, 02:17 PM

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Surgery/dr bill seems insanely low [View all] XanaDUer2 Aug 12 OP

I paid about $1700 two years ago. Turbineguy Aug 12 #1

Ill have to pay the anesthesiologist XanaDUer2 Aug 12 #2

Well, I also got the "alternative" bill Turbineguy Aug 12 #3

What's the alternative bill? XanaDUer2 Aug 12 #4

I got the sum that the hospital sent to the insurers, Turbineguy Aug 12 #10

Medicare costs bernieb Aug 12 #5

My Medicare paid for my cataract surgery too Diamond_Dog Aug 12 #6

I had to pay 500 XanaDUer2 Aug 12 #8

$130.16 XanaDUer2 Aug 12 #9

I had to buy my own Tylenol Laurelin Aug 12 #11

TY XanaDUer2 Aug 12 #12

I owed the practice 151.00 Drs fee XanaDUer2 Aug 12 #13