[LINK] Access your areas

[Pilcher, Fred]

Lodge a complaint with the Health Complaints Commissioner in your State. (Google Health Complaints Commissioner for a list).

This is a relatively common occurrance and should be dealt with quickly and easily.

Cheers,

Fred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au
> [mailto:link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au]On Behalf Of Howard Lowndes
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:14 
> Cc: link
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Access your areas
> 
> 
> That mirrors my recent experience.  I had to undergo a day proc to 
> remove a BCC which needed some slight associated cosmetic surgery to 
> replace the resultant hole.  My private insurance paid less 
> the excess 
> that I had agreed to when I took out the policy.  The problem 
> was that 
> the surgeons bill had a "co-contribution" which I paid, the hospital 
> required I pay the excess on their claim, the gas jockey slapped the 
> $200 excess on his bill which I refused to pay (the excess) as he was 
> supposed to tell me his charges before the op and didn't and stuck a 
> consent form under my nose to sign when I was in pre-op without 
> spectacles and with a anesthetic line already in my arm, then I get a 
> bill with $100 not covered from the path labs for the 
> analysis on the BCC.
> 
> Rick Welykochy wrote:
> > Karl Auer wrote:
> > 
> >> Not at all. If you don't want the rebate, you can pay the service
> >> provider the full amount, directly. I did this several times when I
> >> needed medical services in Australia while I was a 
> non-resident. If you
> >> cover the whole bill yourself, you don't need a card.
> > 
> > There is a sad and costly irony associated with the private 
> health care
> > insurance "top up" high income earners have to suffer. I 
> was hospitalised
> > with adult onset whooping cough (!) in 2004, in a public 
> ward in the RPA.
> > The fellow in the bed across from me, who was in and out of 
> the hospital
> > constantly with a rare chronic disease told me the following.
> > 
> > If you have private insurance, DO NOT declare that fact to 
> the hospital
> > staff upon admission. That way, all costs are paid directly 
> by medicare
> > and you pay nothing. If you do declare private coverage, 
> the hospital will
> > bill you at top rates. You then have to cover these costs 
> yourself and
> > then seek a rebate from the private insurer, often at 
> partial amount of
> > recompense, i.e. you are out of pocket with private health care!
> > 
> > The upside of the whooping cough incident: I was transfered 
> to a private
> > room which I enjoyed for the duration of my "incarceration" 
> since the
> > staff at the time did not know what disease I had and could not risk
> > me infecting an entire public ward.
> > 
> > 
> > cheers,
> > rickw
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Howard.
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