Man receives $9,000 bill for ER visit

He should sign up for Obamacare and say it was a pre-existing condition. Should be covered, right?

I'm trying to figure out why he went to the ER in what sounds like a non-emergency situation.

Nephew spent less than a day in the ER; more or less for observation. Got two snakebite anti-venom treatments @ $88K plus; probably didn't need the second...but the doctor was thinking lawyer instead of patient. Total bill...$181,000.

Our Vet lives next door. I told her to take me to him for antibiotics and pain meds; I'll sweat it out like my dogs always have.

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I'm trying to figure out why he went to the ER in what sounds like a non-emergency situation

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This ^^^^^^^^^^^

Go to a damn urgent care if it's not an EMERGENCY!! Our ER stays full of ear aches, sniffles, and simple bumps and bruises. Why do they go? Anyone with a brain knows the answer to that question.

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“I got a Band-Aid and a tetanus shot. How could it be $9,000? This is crazy,” Hanusz-Rajkowski said.
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Why was the bill so high?

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Because you, Hanusz-Rajkowski, are a dumbass.

If you tie up an ER bed and staff just like anyone else, you should be charged like anyone else. The unserious nature of your injury doesn't make the cost of the equipment and doctors any cheaper. They all get paid the same and cost the same.

And further if all you needed was a "band-aid and a tetanus shot" you shouldn't have been there in the first place.

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Because you, Hanusz-Rajkowski...

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Play stupid games...

So, not one person replied to the content of the post.

$9,000 for a shot and a band-aid? Really?

Regardless if he should have went to the ER or not, that is a crazy amount of money for a shot, even with the ER premium added to the price.

I had a kidney stone last year and my entire bill was less than $2000 - and that includes an inital trip to an urgent care center who told me that I had to go to the ER after doing a bunch of tests.

I know he's probably not getting the same rates as the insured patients, but that's an insane amount of money if all they did was what he said.

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I know he's probably not getting the same rates as the insured patients

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Actually, he is insured.

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Dr. Mark Spektor, president and CEO of the medical center, said the big bill is the fault of Hanusz-Rajkowski’s insurance company, United Healthcare, which no longer has an in-network pricing contract with the hospital

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If my AC goes out in the morning and I wait till midnight to call someone, I am going to pay a premium price to have it fixed. No different here.

You will never change the thought process of people like this. No matter if you hand them insurance at no cost.