BC Advantage - 2006 Issue 6

Helping to diagnose hospital bills

SOLVE A RUBIK'S CUBE blindfolded? No sweat. Explain quantum mechanics to a room full of second-graders? Not a problem. Drive from Renton to Bellevue on Interstate 405 at 8 a.m. on a weekday in 15 minutes? Come on, think up a tougher challenge than that.All right, here's one: Decipher a hospital bill.Most of you would opt for the cube and a blindfold rather than try to explain the arcane coding and indecipherable pricing mechanisms of the typical hospital bill.Or bills. Adding to the complexity, confusion and frustration are the multiple bills that arrive from multiple...

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