airdvr 200 #1 March 7, 2008 My SO had a scare with melanoma this fall. Long story short she uses one of these now http://www.medicalsupplygroup.com/LYMPHEDEMA_PUMPS-ACC/NTI147500/product.aspx The medical supply company charged her insurance company $6,000.00 for this device! Not this exact model, and granted the one listed doesn't come with the sleeve but let's get real.Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #2 March 7, 2008 The insurance company won't pay anything close to $6,000 for it."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nathaniel 0 #3 March 7, 2008 Why did she buy it through her insurer if she could pick it up for $1000 from this website?My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hobie331 0 #4 March 7, 2008 A provider or supplier can charge however much they want, but if they contract with the ins. carrier they will take a hefty writeoff. Charging higher does serve a purpose though. It establishes customary charges for an area which may give them a raise next year. I can remember when TNS units were a couple grand. At the time it was new technology. Now ins. carriers allow around $330-350 and the units can be purchased for less than $75. What I think is a load of crap is ins. carriers let suppliers rent them to patients for $100 a month when one months charge will buy one. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #5 March 7, 2008 Is this anything like what is being discussed? I checked Ebay and this is what came up. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=System+7500+Sequential+Extremity+Pump+&category0="Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 200 #6 March 7, 2008 QuoteWhy did she buy it through her insurer if she could pick it up for $1000 from this website? She didn't have to pay for it. The insurance company pays it. And yes Billy, that's one like it.Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hobie331 0 #7 March 7, 2008 Quote Is this anything like what is being discussed? I checked Ebay and this is what came up. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=System+7500+Sequential+Extremity+Pump+&category0= Don't take this the wrong way because I only know you by your posts, but when I clicked on the link I was fully expecting a pump of the Swedish type. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #8 March 7, 2008 Quote Quote Is this anything like what is being discussed? I checked Ebay and this is what came up. http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=System+7500+Sequential+Extremity+Pump+&category0= Don't take this the wrong way because I only know you by your posts, but when I clicked on the link I was fully expecting a pump of the Swedish type. I do have that kind of a reputation. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
