It can result in a person paying more than they were expecting to pay. It could be anything from a few pennies more to dollars more. |
It's just emergency room doctors; it's not any other service they would get at St. Pete's. |
People go to emergency rooms for anything from an earache to a heart attack, and the bill from the ER doctor could be just about any amount you could imagine. If, for instance, the bill for the ER doctor was $1,000, the UMP enrollee might have to pay up to $300 more than they would have under full coverage. |
We felt this would get ironed out, and it hasn't happened. It got to the point where we had to tell the people so they could protect themselves. |