r/HospitalBills • u/bvvr19 • Apr 19 '25

Hospital-Emergency No CPT codes on itemized bill

Post image

I went to the emergency room in the beginning of March 2025 and was there for 6 hours got one bag of IV and a nurse took my blood and then I spoke to a doctor once, and then I spoke to a student doctor twice, and then I was given to packs of crackers and two packs of apple juice and another plastic cup of ice water.

I was in discharged the same day.

I requested an itemized bill, and I attached what I received. I don't see any CPT codes and when I look up the numbers next to the listed items... I can't find what the codes are for or what a fair market value of those codes would be in my area. As you can see in the picture they charged me twice for three procedures or whatever the list of things are called. I'm not sure the technical term.

I went to an in-network emergency room in a in network hospital and owe a total of $637.32.

the hospital billing department said there is some new law where you have to prove that you paid 10% of your gross income in the previous year to qualify for financial assistance, and I did not pay that much in medical bills last year so I am trying to negotiate down the bills as much as I can since I can't apply for assistance.

Does anyone know why these codes don't come up on Google? Did the hospital not give me a true itemized bill? Do I need to request another one specifically demanding their cpt codes in the itemized bill? Any help would be super appreciated thank you so much

0 Upvotes

33% Upvoted

119 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

2

u/IrisFinch Apr 19 '25

At my hospital they would give you 10% for paying in full. So if all this time and effort is worth $63, good I guess?

1

u/bvvr19 Apr 19 '25

Yes cuz that's $63 I didn't have to pay exactly.

2

u/IrisFinch Apr 19 '25

👍🏻

-1

u/bvvr19 Apr 19 '25

The way I see it, if the multi-billion dollar insurance company also thought "oh it's just $10 it's just 30 bucks it's just a hundred bucks" then they would have paid for it. I even asked for financial assistance one time from the lab for a $6 bill I really do not care and I got it fully forgiven lmfao. I make 6 figures but only report around 60k, and sometimes the smaller providers don't even ask for proof