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[deleted] t1_j2rnlms wrote

Reply to comment by No_ID_Left_4_Me in Anyone with experience requesting itemized bill for Jersey City Medical Center? by mwssnof

Can confirm, worked for jcmc and have no idea how the billing is done or who handled it. I've never interacted with billing at any hospital I've worked at. We simply document and enter charges for the services we provide (not in money but procedures) and through some black magic that turns into dollar signs on a piece of paper sent to you.

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wewerebirds t1_j2ri2hp wrote

Reply to "Mom and Pop" type photography stores in JC? by [deleted]

I recently had about 5 rolls of film developed at autograph and the shop owner was very nice but my negatives came out pretty poor looking and my scans were ultra low quality, too grainy to even do anything with.

i was really disappointed because jersey city really doesn’t have any other options. i’ll only using gelatin labs (mail in and they have drop boxes in the city) and the color house (in chelsea) moving forward.

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burrito__supreme t1_j2re1sp wrote

Reply to Anyone with experience requesting itemized bill for Jersey City Medical Center? by mwssnof

agree with the other poster. i had $60k worth of emergency surgery and a three day stay over the summer. billing has been nothing short of a shitshow. question everything they send you, read it carefully, read it again, have your shit buttoned up when you call them (take notes of who you spoke to on what day, keep good records of payments etc).

edited to add that asking for an itemized bill is the bare minimum of patient proactivity, you and everyone else who receives a large bill from any provider should absolutely be asking for one.

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kulgan t1_j2r6qa2 wrote

Reply to Christ Hospital Review by ak2592

I had a pretty major medical issue maybe fifteen years ago. I went to a Dr who works out of there, and when he got the test results back he called me and told me to go to the emergency room. He danced around it but was telling me to go anywhere but that place. So, that's my major impression, people who are affiliated with it say not to go there.

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No_ID_Left_4_Me t1_j2r40rh wrote

Reply to comment by mwssnof in Anyone with experience requesting itemized bill for Jersey City Medical Center? by mwssnof

I don’t think the medical people have ever met the billing people. Seeing as the billing department told me at one point that they only accept certain documents via fax… I can only assume the entire office is twenty to thirty years behind the times.

I had to spend 3 days in the hospital there, and I’ve spent an almost equal amount of time just trying to resolve their bookkeeping incompetence in the year and a half since then. It is as simple as they said I never paid and I have all the documents proving I did.

They are either criminally over billing or negligently incompetent. Don’t trust a single thing they tell you. By the time you are talking about $20k it might be worthwhile to pay for a few hours with a lawyer or some other expert’s time to assist you.

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No_ID_Left_4_Me t1_j2qyqpr wrote

Reply to Anyone with experience requesting itemized bill for Jersey City Medical Center? by mwssnof

Their billing department is a disaster of criminal proportions. I went there for something major in an emergency and before I left they had me pay my bill. It was my full out of pocket maximum, which seemed right based on what had been done, so I paid it right there. Almost a year later they sent me a nearly identical bill (it was like $100 less I think) saying it hadn’t been paid. I called them and they had me send them proof of my payment from my credit card company, as well as some documents from the insurance company. They said they would look into it and call me back in a few days. They never did. They continued to send me bills about every 3 weeks for a while and I would call them every time to explain. They kept contradicting what they had told me on the last call, so I started announcing every time I had to call that I was recording the call. When I inevitably had to call them three weeks later and have the same conversation they would say something like “we have no record of that” I was able to play them a recording. Finally they stopped sending me bills. I called a few months later to ask if it had been settled but was told that they were still investigating. That was a few months ago. So I honestly don’t even know if it is over. In conclusion: do not trust a word they say, get everything in writing and record every call (be clear to announce that every time and get that announcement as the first part of the recording). Talk to your insurance company to clarify everything. Keep detailed records of everything including any payments you do make. I like the idea of asking for an itemized bill, but just know that they are as dishonest as they are incompetent. Maybe call back a second time three weeks later and see if they send you a different bill!

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Ilanaspax t1_j2qon08 wrote

Reply to comment by objectimpermanence in Has anyone been through eviction courts in the past year? by balaca40

Sorry to say you seem a bit obsessed and also to be projecting quite a bit onto me simply stating an opinion that hoboken at the moment seems less corny and tacky than downtown JC (an ironic turn of events if you’re remotely familiar with the region). A result of better city planning or simply less heinous faux luxury buildings due to it being a smaller city? You be the judge because I don’t really care to be honest.

Not sure where you got the idea that I hate wealthy property owners - I simply dislike those with a sense of entitlement that see nothing wrong with displacing long term residents but I can see how it’s easier for your brain to process rich person=bad instead of wrapping it around the bigger picture. Good luck with that 🙏

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Javesther t1_j2qas0o wrote

Reply to Christ Hospital Review by ak2592

An emergency room is an emergency room. There will be qualified doctors and nurses there . Find a good primary doctor for your child that’s covered under your insurance . Do your research and work with what you got.

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rbastid t1_j2q4p09 wrote

Reply to comment by glo46 in Has anyone been through eviction courts in the past year? by balaca40

These people moaning are all those who would be given $1 million, and weeks later be poor. They need to give excuses why their own laziness, or their belief that everything should be easy for them, and that usually means demonizing others.

Outside of huge buildings, most Jersey city landlords are locals or people who worked their asses off in order to afford a house. Even if someone inherited the house, they did so from family members (probably parent) who also worked their asses off and were probably still too poor to move out of Jersey city, as anyone who made money Pre-2000s left and went down the shore.

And for these landlords they aren't raising rents to get rich, they're doing so to pay the huge taxes that help those aforementioned moaners get their bike lanes and $50k park fountains.

Hudson county isn't devoid of government housing, so these people could go see what happens when "eeeeeevil landlords" are out of the picture.

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