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That is certainly encouraging. The person at the billing desk was not helpful at all.

That is very helpful Borg, thank you very much. For my locality, the blue book indicates $815 and some steps we should take to negotiate the price.

Thank you for the advice. We will certainly call them again in the next days.

The insurance did agree to pay 80% of the $12k so the provider can not be out of network (unless I misunderstand).

That is one scary thought to me :frown: Yes, we have the CD.

No, the hospital was prescribed by the regular general practitioner.

At the time of the procedure, it was ACE. I appreciate your feedback very much.

The original price was $13k which was taken to $12k. So our share is $2.4k. When I read MRI price $2k to $3k am I to understand that is after the insurance share ?

Yes, and the insurance has agreed to pay 80% and claims they negotiated the price.

It was not an emergency. We went to a hospital because her doctor prescribed the diagnostic. We already switched plan from 20% to fixed $250 copay for the MRI. I went yesterday to ask for itemized bill. The contrast agent was $300. There are two items for two parts of the head although she went...

Thank you for this advice. We will investigate other local facilities for the next MRIs (which will happen regularly, as the $12k turned up unfortunately useful). I anticipate to find better offers, and I want to present them as evidence.

Yes chemisttree, and yes that would be the price range I would consider fair in this region. Is there any third party assistance I can find apart from going to court ?

Dear PFers, The hospital gave us a $12k bill for one MRI (head with contrast). The people I talked to at the hospital tell me that they do not know whether this is a fair price, which I find suspicious. The same procedure in France costs $300. As I am unsure what to do, I would appreciate...

Entitled lazy people, there is a major societal problem from the point of view of someone who grew up abroad. This is very sad honestly. You are talented enough to become an engineer : grow up and live up to it. There are many people more talented than you who were stopped in their track by a...

I do not see any problem in my field (particle physics). I check arXiv every morning. If I know the name, I will read it. If I do not know the name, it is unlikely I will read it. If the published version differs form the original on arXiv, the arXiv paper is updated. If I missed out on...

I think it's between banana and Johann Sebastian Bach.

The_Duck recommendations are good, but keep in mind that they have to do with quantum field theory. It is probably indispensable to spend some time learning quantum field theory on its own if you want to study particle physics. I post some recommendations on particle physics. "Lie Algebras in...

Not a mathematician, rather a physicist, but : a controversial pronunciation. Louis de Broglie http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/De_Broglie.ogg

Fixing the group structure has nothing to do with fixing the coupling constants. The SM constants still have to be measured. This is old and has been discussed numerous times in many places. If you are interested, you should seriously read before criticizing.

There is the magnetic field of the earth, it could be a low energy cosmic ray. Nice imagination to suggest a panda face !

The Higgs mass prediction (updated) is at Resilience of the Spectral Standard Model None of the statements are vague, everything has a precise, well-defined, mathematical meaning in those papers. I agree that the Higgs mass post-diction is most unfortunate.

No, that would violate parity/time reversal. If you are interested in experimental limits : Schiff moment of the Mercury nucleus and the proton dipole moment An Improved Experimental Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron

"crackpot" : one given to eccentric or lunatic notions When one acts as spokesperson for enough people in a country that their proposal becomes a law upheld by the Supreme Court, I do no think this person should be dismissed as "eccentric" or "lunatic", and their opinion discarded in a...

It is not for you to judge, you can not redefine their priorities. Again, as a matter of fact, the moratorium stands, and that "accomplishment" alone means she is not a mere "crackpot".

I understand your point of view. I am not sure you understand the point of view of farmers in India, who are indeed rather religious, and who perceive Monsanto's intrusion in their market as disruptive. It is not fair to compare her to members of the New Age movement, because she does not seek...

Vandana Shiva is not a nut/crackpot. She is a PhD trained as a physicist. You may disagree with her activism, but please do so respectfully. Rush Limbaugh does have advertisers, so no, not all. Thank you for actually listening to her arguments and providing with your comments. I hope you realize...

"Democracy now" is non-profit and provides highly praised investigation journalism and broadcast. They are passionate about their work and understand its importance. They have received multiple awards. I will drop the case and let PF readers judge by themselves from your own comparison with Rush...

Independent journalism may displease your taste, but you did not elaborate. You merely repeated your opinion. It is indeed very valuable for a well functioning *democracy* to have educated people investigating and reporting without advertisers, corporate or government money. I would agree with...

Would you care to elaborate or retract ?

I believe it is much, much worse. It is in fact partly responsible for the next tragedy.

You said yourself that the IED could not have been on the track. De facto, the people one the sidewalk were on the front line, they were the main victims, and hence can be logically called "target". It is however not logical to claim "they wanted to aim at the president, but the white house was...

Google created a finder to help relay information http://google.org/personfinder/2013-boston-explosions

I still do not understand your point. I am merely trying to engage students' thoughts. For that purpose, the picture you suggested is not "wrong", it is appropriate. For instance, it was used by Feynman in his 1986 "Dirac Memorial Lectures" to explain "the reason for antiparticles". I do not...

I am not sure why you say it is "wrong". Thinking of antiparticles in this manner is useful enough that it should be recommended for every student to ponder about it at least once. AFAIK, many students are still told about antiparticles as "holes in the sea of negative energy particles" from...

I must say I do not really understand the original formulation. My two cents nevertheless. If you collide an electron with a positron at very high energies, and produce a quark-antiquark pair flying off back-to-back, some non-singlet (or "non-zero" if you will) color is flying with each member...

Think of the formation of an interference pattern : if you would shine light on a pattern, the angular distribution would be related to the Fourier transform of the spatial pattern. If you "shine" an electron (point-like) elastically on a hadron (say a proton), the angular distribution of the...

Dodo wings :tongue2:

While there are many (many...) people who use QFT from high energy to solid state physics, there are only few people who work on QFT per se. Are you interested in the mathematical formalism itself, or applying it to a physical problem ?

My favorite quote, from a math teacher (engineer school) : It is entertaining to read about math, or read about physics, but it is a far cry from the real thing. You get to compete with people who are not merely brillant. They work hard, but not not because they strive to be the best. They...

Gravity is not part of the standard model of particle physics, hence the Higgs is unrelated to gravity in this model(*). The Higgs boson describes inertia for elementary particles. Please note that most of the mass of ordinary everyday objects is not due to the Higgs (rather, it is "frozen...

Not sure whether it is good news or bad news...

That opinion is indeed enlightening... I suppose you should contact the authors on http://arxiv.org/list/math/new to let them know your piece of mind on their work.

The IAS organized a special year on Quantum Field Theory in 1996-97. Below is the cover from the proceedings : In the 1970s, physicists were celebrating the incredible successes of the standard model of particle physics (which culminated recently with the discovery of the Higgs boson)...

It is such a fascinating question because of its duality, its dichotomy, in so many ways. On the one hand, practical applications of fundamental science surround us, underlie so many things in our daily lives, and we take them for granted. We do not reflect on where they come from. Take this...

401k with contribution matched. I realize that not having a private employer may certainly shelter me from unethical practices. Hence my surprise and interest in this thread.

I clearly make less than the median, because I am a junior staff in the pool. But, I cannot stay on H1B longer than 5 years, and almost everybody went through the same process. The initial claim that there is a systemic problem with the H1B program is quite extraordinary, and the soundbites can...

My H1B salary was matched with the standard salary for my competences. I am sorry, but I still do not understand how you can lower costs with this strategy. As far as I understand, it is far cheaper to subcontract labor abroad.

If I understand correctly, the vast majority of H1B visas go to computer science. I am going outside my field of expertise here, but if I were to extrapolate from what I know (nuclear physics), is it not possible that foreign students are just incredibly better at technical tasks than US...

You can turn around several times, so there are actually infinitely many solutions of your type (1) :smile: Type (2) is new to me however, and pretty neat :approve:

Lemme fix that for you