ClearHealthCosts.com 5/22/2013

“At the same hospital, a bill of $1,105.42 and a payment of $884.34, with this comment: ”The cost of a mammogram has increased enormously in the past 2 years. From the same facility in 2010 it was $175. It took almost a year for [insurer] to pay. In the meantime [provider] turned the billed over to collection agency so I paid the 884.34. I have not as yet been reimbursed though I have tried, with calls to [provider] customer service and letters to them.”

At another big New York teaching hospital, you told us charged prices ranged from $505 to $719 (One higher charge, $972, was identified as a diagnostic mammogram). The payments from insurers ranged from $129.35 to $698.”