[Magdalen] A strange letter from Blue Cross...

[Jim Handsfield]

In any case you can be assured that BC will not pay anywhere near that amount. 

Jim Handsfield
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> On Mar 18, 2016, at 10:14 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> Today I got a cc of a letter Blue Cross sent Stanford Dermatology for a date of service of 01/12/2016.  That was my first visit to my friends at Stanford, and here's exactly what happened:
> 
> 1)  thorough visual examination, and
> 2)  four (4) small (by later standards!) biopsies:  one on an ankle, and the other three from my torso.
> 
> For context, three weeks later Dr Doogie Howser, medieval barber down the hallway at Dermatological Surgery, took two much larger chunks out of me.
> 
> Doogie's charge to Blue Cross?  $656.00.
> Dermatology's charge to Blue Cross?  (drum splat)  $41,871.00. -------------- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Blue Cross has asked Stanford for, ahem, more information.
> 
> Am I being foolish in thinking that someone, somehow, up thereaways in Palo Alto, made a downright hilarious financial typo?  I haven't got the EOB yet for it, but I happen to know the PET scan will probably be only between 1 and 2k.
> 
> The moral of this tale is, -- They weren't no $41,871.00 worth of "services" performed that day.  Nuh-uh!