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- Ramanisky20
A couple of weeks back, I woke up with stomach ache/cramp ... possible food poisoning, maybe passing a stone, it hurt all day for 2 days straight ... just a constant pain 24/7... but no diarrhea and no vomiting ... so I go to the emergency room (I have a primary doc now, of course) anyways, they run some tests .. urine, blood, x-ray ... 5-hrs later I go home with 2 sets of antibiotics and 1 set of Hydro-condone, for what the physician say's is just a minor infection. I take antibiotics as prescribed and pain is gone the next day. Great.
and then comes the bill ... apparently they didn't get my insurance info that night.
so here's an itemized list.
of course I knew the CT Scan was going to be expensive as fuck .. but DYUMMM.
there was also a separate bill for $630 for the the 2 physicians that took care of me that night.
so a grand total of $8,312.79 ... ouch.
Insurance better get this right.- what city are you in Ram? just curious. i work for a health coverage nonprofit and this kind of stuff is my issue area.sarahfailin
- I went to Emory University Hospital Midtown ... Atlanta Ga.Ramanisky2
- I know peeps who work there. wouldnt they just get your insurance info and fixed?yurimon
- God I love Canada, that shit is Crazy!eryx
- holy shit that CT scan!monospaced
- anyway, ALWAYS try to hit up a regular immediate care vs the actual ER unless it's criticalmonospaced
- ^ you say that without analeyesing what where when who why how.yurimon
- ment for erexyurimon
- yeah like citymd type urgent care places.yurimon
- really need to get rid of insurance to keep the price in check of such things. fuckin non profit monopoliesdeathboy
- Hospital was contacted today about my insurance info and now will wait and see how much it's going to be out of pocket.Ramanisky2
- Eight thousand dollars ???i_was
- yes but that's without insurance ... there was a slight mix up ... imagine though $8,300 for a belly ache .. wut ???Ramanisky2
- yup, I should show you my itemized bill for stitches and some bruises. I literally walked out after a while because they wanted to do more stuffsofakingback
- couldnt they determine the problem without the ct scan? I go to the dr and usually the ct scan is last if everything else fails to detect an infection.yurimon
- they ran blood, urine and an x-ray ... the only thing that was off was that my white blood cell count was elevatedRamanisky2
- but that was due to the infection ..
CT Scan was the last thing they did.
that included a dye injection into my body which felt very strange indeed.Ramanisky2 - Our Health Care system is all messy and shitty and sometimes quality is third World level BUT i'm so glad its free! That bill is insane!Bennn
- I was talking about Canada of courseBennn
- yikesportmanteau
- Emergency room is 6 to 20 hours of waiting over here. But its freeeeeeeeeBennn
- I went in at exactly 9:20 pm and left at 5:30 am ... Unbelievable. Took them an hour and a half to provide me with a Lortab for my pain.Ramanisky2
- Health is Wealth.stoplying
- ^ very trueportmanteau
- I agree that bill is just insane, unbelievablei_was
- Would have been cheaper to fly to another country and get treated there.yuekit
- lol 1000% yuekitRamanisky2
- nothing is free.yurimon
- Ramanisky2, sounds like you took a pretty good dose of Radiation in those procedures. http://www.radiology…eryx
- I had an op a month ago. GP, consultant and a surgeon. I was out in a day with a bag of free pain meds. Back at work in three. The UK NHS is amazing.monoboy
- We spread the cost with national insurance contributions. Why anyone would want to break it up for a system like yours just to make profit baffles me.monoboy
- our system was destroyed via various methods. however most of the world still benefits from american free market innovation.yurimon
- you cant just jump in and say without reviewing history.yurimon
- I had kidney stones one time..the guy put me through the CT scan 3 times, because he messed up..My bill had charged me for 3 times CT scans. They tried to get..cbass99
- ...one over on me and I said, ah hail no.cbass99
- True yurimon, sadly many of these innovations are used by US drug companies to extort via licensing.monoboy
- The profit encourages more greed than innovation. The average Joe pays $400 a month in insurance for a second rate service that goes into shareholders pockets.monoboy
- profiting like that from the sick is fucking shamefulRamanisky2
- first of all you clowns are too much obsessed over conventional meds. there natural medicine is better for treating chronic disorders.yurimon
- cash price CT scan $250 http://www.forbes.co…deathboy
- Don't do crack. Don't crack your ribs and require a fuckin' hospital visit that cracks your wallet in half. Crazy prices! ;-)drake-von-drake
- going to a doctor in US is like going to a car mechanic
Savagesdrgs - richest nation in the world and has the most ridiculous health system in the world. Big business has no boundaries.fadein11
- Round trip ticket plane to Istanbul is $900. I'd get you to a private hospital not even a State hospital and you'd pay at most $700.Beeswax
- fadein, you can thank yourself for letting it happen. could end tomorrow if peeps smartened up their fearful lazy azesyurimon
- when ever you deal with problem you have to know what the problem really is, like good mechanic knows his cars to fix them.yurimon
- most people all they know is yeah big biz, its expensive and it ends there. good luck solving that one.yurimon
- Let it happen? I am British. We have the NHS :)fadein11
- i wonder where your innovation would be if it wasnt for some relic of the free market.things get relatively more in expensive as more competition, innovation.yurimon
- a good example is lasik, and braces. used to be expensive but these service werent controlled as much and if you compare the products from then n now.yurimon
- you can avoid shit like this even more expensive they are more scared not to treat you as compared too glitches such as thisyurimon
- http://www.dailymail…yurimon
- US is not a white country, it does not belong in the first worlddrgs
- "i wonder where your innovation would be"
would it be even higher than US?
https://www.globalin…drgs - is that industry specific? all i see one lump of red.yurimon
- you are one lump of reddrgs
- das a lot of moola manportmanteau