Dankfish said:

I am still covered with parent's health insurance (23). Not long ago I had a potentially fatal accident and ended up being in a hospital, being treated in therapy, being fed, being medicated for around 20 days.

The bill was 56k and I imagine the total treatment being way over 6 times the amount of effort they put on your case. I guess I'm not positive of specifics but it seems like they jipped you on the entire bill.

Thankfully my parents insurance covered 55.6k and only shelled out a few hundred, hope you get lucky on this one as well.

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NotTheDevil said:

bradley said:

Do you have to actually pay it? Is it like, they'll treat you, but then you will have to kill yourself because you have no money?

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They treat you, then you pay at whatever speed you can. Diseases that put you out for a while can easily bankrupt you.

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Gratos said:

I was hospitalized with pancreitis for less then 2 days about a month ago, just got the bill today. Over 9 thousand for about 45 hours in the hospital. All they could do was keep me on a liquid diet and dope me up every 4 hours.

1900 fucking dollars for proably three bags of saline and ~8 doses of IV morphine (45hrs-15sleeping=30hrs, 30/4=about ~8 doses, 1900/8=$238 per dose!!!).

I was fucking robbed, next time I go to the hospital Im gunna get their diagnosis then come home and treat myself.

Im gunna call and bitch tommorrow to find out what the 5G's worth of misc charges are. Ill be sure to inform them of how much cheaper morphine is on the street.

Fucking crooks, I didnt even eat any food and only had 2 6 ounces bottles of sprite during the end of my stay there. I bet they wouldnt have even let me in the door had I not had insurance. They sure saw Anthem coming there way.

/end rant

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Icelander said:

Gratos said:

I was hospitalized with pancreitis for less then 2 days about a month ago, just got the bill today. Over 9 thousand for about 45 hours in the hospital. All they could do was keep me on a liquid diet and dope me up every 4 hours.

1900 fucking dollars for proably three bags of saline and ~8 doses of IV morphine (45hrs-15sleeping=30hrs, 30/4=about ~8 doses, 1900/8=$238 per dose!!!).

I was fucking robbed, next time I go to the hospital Im gunna get their diagnosis then come home and treat myself.

Im gunna call and bitch tommorrow to find out what the 5G's worth of misc charges are. Ill be sure to inform them of how much cheaper morphine is on the street.

Fucking crooks, I didnt even eat any food and only had 2 6 ounces bottles of sprite during the end of my stay there. I bet they wouldnt have even let me in the door had I not had insurance. They sure saw Anthem coming there way.

/end rant

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Well you have two ways of looking at this.  On your own you would have died so you got off cheap or...  they could have done it for a tenth of the cost if not for the poor state of business affairs within the medical profession.  Your choice.

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Dystopia said:

#11375494 - 11/03/09 11:17 AM (4 years, 20 days ago)

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