Steven Apostolov

Review of Newport hospital

Avoid Lifespan, the Newport Hospital or Aquidneck ...

Avoid Lifespan, the Newport Hospital or Aquidneck Radiologists! All they care is how much money they will make from you! An employee of the hospital called me to schedule an appointment for an MRI. I asked her if I will have to pay anything. She checked my plan (Blue Shield Blue Cross) and said that it won't cost me anything at all - $0 deductible. A month later on I got a bill for almost $400, and another one from Aquidneck Radiologists for $100, totaling the full amount of my deductible (I suspect that both companies are running a scheme together to exhaust patients' deductibles). Had I known that it will cost me that much, I would have declined the MRI. Patients have the right to know the cost of the care. Medical billing fraud should be punished!