#surprise bill

[wildhannimal]

Before you pay that not-covered hospital bill:

I want to take a min to spread awareness for the No Surprises Act after noticing a reddit post earlier.

This protection for patients just popped up in the past couple years, and the one major downside is that it's up to the patients to speak up to make use of it, but not everyone knows what it is.

"If you have private health insurance, these new protections ban the most common types of surprise bills. If you’re uninsured or you decide not to use your health insurance for a service, under these protections, you can often get a good faith estimate of the cost of your care up front, before your visit."

Consumer fact sheet

Typically, health insurance companies will help pay for bills from "in-network" providers, AKA their VIP inner circle gang turf. They won't help pay if you get medical care from another gang's henchmen (out of network).

This means that sometimes, a person would go to the hospital, which they knew had been covered by their insurance before, so they expect it's going to be relatively affordable. But they didn't know that multiple medical "gangs" were working in the same hospital. Their anesthesiologist, for example, was from a different gang. That specialist was out of network even though the surgeon and nurses were all in network.

Boom. Big bill for thousands of dollars and their insurance refuses to help pay it.

But now we have this law! The No Surprises Act means that insurance companies need to cover "surprise" expenses (under certain conditions).

If you don't have health insurance, hospitals and clinics need to give you an accurate quote before you get services, then foot the bill if they were too far off the mark.

The Fact Sheet section of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services have some wonderful user-friendly resources for you about health insurance and how this act works.

Keep in mind that Medicare and government-run programs always have weird rules for everything, so you might have different (yet similar) protections through those programs.

If you have a medical bill that wasn't covered by insurance and you think it might count as a surprise bill, please check out your rights and consider fighting it instead of letting it become a stressful expense or debt you can't repay.

Go here to start figuring things out for your situation:

Health insurance companies have way, waaaaay too much power over our lives. We need every drop of protection we can get - but it only counts as much as we can understand and use those protections!

[l3viat8an]

MC:*Walking into Lucifer’s office* Hi Luci!

Lucifer:*Holding up a hand* Don't distract me. I’m busy organizing all my mail into three categories. From Satan, Death threats, and Death threats from Satan.

MC: Don't forget "Begging for a pact." from Solomon.

Lucifer: Right, four categories.

[almondcroissantsandink]

this is for the Bill (2015) girlies, the horrible histories girlies, the Six Idiots girlies, the Shakespeare girlies, and the silly girlies

[brittlebutch]

Shoutout to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Holiday Special for giving us outright canonical Jewish Bill S. Preston Esq. <3

[cinemagal]

Bill Skarsgård as Keith BARBARIAN (2022)

[zane-senutna]

He was there. He knows how it went down.

[Bill is reading a history book and suddenly sets it on fire]

Bill: That is not how it fucking happened.

Bonus:

Dipper: That book was mine…

Bill: So?

Dipper: So you’re going to buy me a new one.

Bill:

Dipper:

Bill: I’ll write you a new one.

[thiagodasilva]

Bill Hader gave us a subtle reminder that, yes Barry can still be a comedy because he gave us “Barry Berkman was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery with full honors”. if you didn’t laugh at that idk what to tell you

[find-me-in-hell]

Obviously already been pointed out but the parallel between Bill saying 'If I step on a butterfly, it could send ripples through time that mean I'm not even born in the first place and I could just disappear.' and Rubys 'What if i change history by stepping on a butterfly?'. Bill saying 'Just promise you won't get me killed?' and 15 saying 'I'll keep her safe. I promise' Like god fucking damn it Ruby you are gonna fucking die

[tazmiilly]

okay wait one more

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

As an 11th and 12th Doctor fan I'm feeling rather left out so far by all the released 60th content.

[kedreeva]

A while back, I got a notification that I could enter a pet into a little voting competition. I figured heck, the prize to win is $10,000 and a magazine article, why not!

Well, it looks like Artemis made it past round 3 and into the top 10, within the same group. If you'd like to help us out, you can vote for her here!

We're up against a fabulous therapy steer named Moo, with whom we've bonded in solidarity against the orange cat dressed up as Trump, so if you don't want to help Artemis, might I suggest a vote for Moo?

[daryllzero]

BILL PULLMAN in WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING 1995, dir. Jon Turteltaub

[absurdumsid]

I dare you to draw bill sans outer and lust without looking at a pictures of them

who tf is bill sans

Bill! Sans belongs to Hwamyong (<- its taken me longer to try and find them than actually attempting and failinf to draw him TY ANON !)

Outer! Sans belongs to 2mi127

Lust! Sans belongs to NSFWshamecave

[y2khaos]

i needed to contribute to this meme immediately its so funny

[thetimelordbatgirl]

[that-guy-morg]

Let him be Spider-Man!!!!!