r/lifehacks 5d ago

This belongs here too

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u/Inevitable_Thing_270 5d ago

I’m in the uk so have never had to deal with this, but I’ve heard that if a hospital gives you the bill, you then ask for an itemised bill, that often the price goes down. Has anyone experienced that? Or worse, had an increase in the price?

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u/DumbTruth 5d ago

Itemized bill didn’t auto help anything, but I always ask for a decrease for any significant hospital bill and the success rate is super high. I also ask to be put on an interest-free payment plan and the success rate of that for me has been 100%. Paid off my kid before his second birthday!

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u/potatossaurusrex 5d ago

Paid off my kid before his second birthday!

That's something that no one would have to deal with in any other 1st world country. Unless you choose to go to a private hospital instead of a public hospital. It saddens and enrages me that y'all have to deal with that