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Related: About this forumShe was encouraged to take a rabies shot after an encounter with a bat. Now a Charlottesville woman faces a $30K bill.
Hat tip, the Virginia Mercury
Charlottesville womans $30K rabies shot bill and more Virginia headlines
BY: STAFF REPORT - APRIL 4, 2024
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BY: STAFF REPORT - APRIL 4, 2024
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HEALTH CARE
She was encouraged to take a rabies shot after an encounter with a bat. Now a Charlottesville woman faces a $30K bill.
'I'm feeling like this is really worrisome. I kept thinking this bankrupts a family.'
Hawes Spencer Apr 3, 2024
After a concerning encounter with a bat in her house last summer, a Charlottesville woman is trying to get answers about why the rabies shots recommended for her cost more than $30,000.
Jocelyn Diaz says shes been getting increasingly stern letters from Martha Jefferson Hospitals parent company, Sentara Health, telling her to pay her portion.
I got this invoice and called Sentara and said, Im sure you made a mistake, Diaz told The Daily Progress. Theres no way this could be this extraordinary amount.
Its not the first time Sentara has been accused of overcharging patients. Five years ago, Charlottesville residents learned the company had been charging them the highest health insurance rates in the country. Since then, the Department of Justice has been poring over the companys financial records, reporting late last year that a Sentara subsidiary known as Optima Health may have unfairly pocketed $665 million by exploiting the monopoly Sentara held in Virginia for two years.
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HEALTH CARE
She was encouraged to take a rabies shot after an encounter with a bat. Now a Charlottesville woman faces a $30K bill.
'I'm feeling like this is really worrisome. I kept thinking this bankrupts a family.'
Hawes Spencer Apr 3, 2024
After a concerning encounter with a bat in her house last summer, a Charlottesville woman is trying to get answers about why the rabies shots recommended for her cost more than $30,000.
Jocelyn Diaz says shes been getting increasingly stern letters from Martha Jefferson Hospitals parent company, Sentara Health, telling her to pay her portion.
I got this invoice and called Sentara and said, Im sure you made a mistake, Diaz told The Daily Progress. Theres no way this could be this extraordinary amount.
Its not the first time Sentara has been accused of overcharging patients. Five years ago, Charlottesville residents learned the company had been charging them the highest health insurance rates in the country. Since then, the Department of Justice has been poring over the companys financial records, reporting late last year that a Sentara subsidiary known as Optima Health may have unfairly pocketed $665 million by exploiting the monopoly Sentara held in Virginia for two years.
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She was encouraged to take a rabies shot after an encounter with a bat. Now a Charlottesville woman faces a $30K bill. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2024
OP
What is especially insulting is that once such an option is created, these leeches will cave.
OldBaldy1701E
Apr 2024
#7
Robbers seeking to become barrons, while masquarading as medical practioners.
magicarpet
Apr 2024
#4
XanaDUer2
(14,123 posts)1. Christ nt
CurtEastPoint
(19,192 posts)2. GD bloodsucking leeches providing health 'care'. What a scam
Jerry2144
(2,623 posts)3. Another grain of sand on the beach of reasons why
We need non-profit, single-payer, government-run health care in this country. Get all of the greedy corporates out of dealing directly with people in need
OldBaldy1701E
(6,409 posts)7. What is especially insulting is that once such an option is created, these leeches will cave.
They will stop overcharging and be forced to compete with the other option. Which, of course, makes one realize that they are, in fact, overcharging by WAY too much, that they have been all along, and they have been operating in the 'dark' to make sure we never figured it out. Once they realize the gravy train is over, they will suddenly find the wherewithal to reduce their blood sucking just to survive. And, it will be glorious.
magicarpet
(16,615 posts)4. Robbers seeking to become barrons, while masquarading as medical practioners.
70sEraVet
(4,165 posts)5. The poor woman was safer with the bat!
magicarpet
(16,615 posts)6. A Honey Badger or a Tazmanian Devil would not have ransacked her wallet as badly as the hospital did.
democratsruletheday
(1,229 posts)8. she should lawyer up...
there should be a young, aspiring lawyer who will take her case in a pro Bono fashion. Fuck those leeches.