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Man hit with almost $90,000 bill after serious car accident despite having insurance
When Mark Gottlieb was hit by another car while driving in January of 2019, he damaged four vertebrae and smashed several teeth.
"A car basically came out of nowhere. I thought I was going to die," he told, "CBS This Morning."
His Geico Car Insurance plan covered $250,000 of medical care. After physical therapy and other treatments that Geico covered, Gottlieb needed spinal surgery. He didn't pre-clear the surgery with his medical insurer, Aetna, because he thought he would be covered by the money left in his Geico plan. But the hospital and surgeon's bills totaled over $700,000.