TikToker exposes \u201cscam\u201d hospital bill by just asking for receipts TikTok: oh_thats_just_trey\/UnsplashA TikToker by the name of \u2018oh_thats_just_trey\u2019 has called out \u201cscam\u201d hospital bills after he asked for an itemized receipt \u2013 and viewers have taken to the comments with similar stories. If there\u2019s one thing Americans should be able to agree on when it comes to visiting the hospital, it\u2019s that they\u2019re really expensive. Without insurance in the US, visitors can receive bills totaling tens of thousands of dollars for more complicated visits. TikToker \u2018oh_thats_just_trey\u2019 has gone viral after uploading a video calling out \u201cscam\u201d hospital bills after he asked for an itemized receipt, which led to a decrease of over $3,000. TikTok user calls out \u201cscam\u201d hospital bills Uploaded back in April 2022, Tre\u2019jon \u2018oh_thats_just_trey\u2019 Wilson\u2019s video said: \u201cTell me why my hospital bill went from $4,000 to $950 all because I asked them for a receipt and a list of everything I was being charged for, SMFH. They lowered my bill by 76%. Is it me or our health care system is a scam?\u201d At the time of writing, the TikTok video has been viewed almost four million times, with users flooding the comments with their own experiences. (Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load) Just days later, Adam Conover, who gained popularity for his show \u201cAdam Ruins Everything,\u201d stitched the video to explain why hospitals have the high rates that they do. \u201cThe numbers on every doctor and hospital bill are straight-up fake and made up. If you have insurance, your hospital has to negotiate with your insurance company on the cost of services so they set these super high, ridiculous numbers as a starting point for that negotiation,\u201d Adam explained. He then went on to add that the \u201cmessed up\u201d part of this process, is that patients receive the same extremely high bill if they do not have insurance, allowing the patient to ask for receipts and receive a lower bill. (Click here if TikTok doesn\u2019t load) Both videos have received millions of views, and users are dying to attempt the \u2018hack\u2019 the next time they go to the hospital. For more TikTok news, check out how to enable the new \u2018clear mode\u2019 on your FYP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker exposes \u201cscam\u201d hospital bill by just asking for receipts TikTok: oh_thats_just_trey\/UnsplashA TikToker by the name of \u2018oh_thats_just_trey\u2019 has called out \u201cscam\u201d hospital bills after he asked for an itemized receipt \u2013 and viewers have taken to the comments with similar stories. If there\u2019s one thing Americans should be able to agree on when it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}