Here's what the (incoming) FDA Director, Dr. Marty Makary, had to say about the Quizzify Financial Consent:
"Kudos for Quizzify for giving people this tool to fight these outrageous prices... Already, I’ve heard powerful stories of how these Quizzify “battlefield consent” forms have saved people thousands of dollars."
From the days when employees had to actually write in the words. Or, more recently, affix a sticker with the 29 words written on them. Now, of course, the Consent is fully automated. All employees need to do is present their insurance card. We work with you as an employer or advisor to tweak their insurance card so that it can do the job on its own.
And these words also work on ancillary services provided by outside contractors as part of the emergency visit. Here are the bills for xrays ($46.61) and crutches ($15.80) for a broken foot. It's almost as though you're in a foreign country...
A brief explanation with a hyperlink to tell you more.
Some actual examples of the Consent in use, including (in some cases) the costs, before and after.
Like calling a murderer "alleged" when he or she (most likely he) is caught with a smoking gun and a dead body, they didn't come right out and say this Consent works, but came pretty close to it. They did "bury the lead" as well, so you have to read the whole thing.
When was the last time a Wall Street Journal columinst agreed with the New York Times? And yet...
The six words that keep ERs in business are: "Hey, Mom! Watch me do this!"
From the account:
I asked the attendant to print out the financial responsibility form and wrote on it that I wouldn't consent to paying more than 2 times the Medicare allowable. The attendant laughed at me and said "good luck with that." Naturally, I replied "what do you mean?" And the attendant told me the hospital would still try and come after me for the remainder of the balance. I said: "Sure, they could try, but any court would laugh at them that I had a signed agreement stating what I would pay (which was fair and reasonable) and that any court would laugh at the hospital trying to egregiously charge me." His tune changed and he said "wow, that's pretty smart." He called a co-worker over and she agreed that it was a smart idea.
This was the one that inspired us to start the 24/7 toll-free support line.
This building contractor holds the record for the greatest savings in Quizzify history (95.3%).
However, occasionally we catch a hospital violating EMTALA and threaten to report them, and we get a 100% writeoff.
