Health Insurance is Out of Control

[nightfighter]

First off, I get my bill for $150.00 co-pay for an emergency room visit in August when I got my index finger filleted by a bluefish. No problem with the amount of the co-pay, I knew what it was going to be.....But the entire billing was for $1050.00!!!! All they did was wash it with brown soap, stick some crazy glue on it and give me a script for antibiotics! How can they justify this? I was sitting in the admissions waiting area for 75% of the two hours I was there. In treatment are for less than 30 minutes. $2100.00 per hour? Ridiculous.

Then, tonight I get a call to pre-register for my twice postponed colonoscopy this Thursday. They just called back to let me know that I need to pay $500.00 at the time I arrive for the procedure.... WTF??? I have Tufts Health Plan and this is a prescribed/preventative procedure. It's not like I am having elective surgery here.... Not at all happy with having it in the first place and this is really putting me over the top...