Hospital Shock

We have had a shock. It used to be that any doctor at a hospital was considered to be on the hospital staff. If a hospital participated with your insurance company, everyone that you would see also participated with your insurance company. This is not longer true. Every doctor is billed separately. Some may be on your insurance plan, and some might not. This includes all of the doctors who operate behind the scenes, that you never see or can talk to like pathologists. The response from the hospital as that the patient must ask the doctor whether that doctor participates in their insurance plan. Okay...so I have been in a car accident and am taken to a hospital by ambulance. Exactly HOW am I supposed to ask the doctors if I am unconscious? Our medical care is broken and needs to be fixed. Our current method of separate billing organizations is incredibly inefficient and expensive. Time for socialized medicine and I never thought I would say that but things are spiralling out of control. Speak to your US Senator now.