re: Medical Billing has gone mad

I got in a motorcycle accident two years ago. Taken by ambulance to the hospital in Tampa. I wasn't hurt terribly but enough to get checked and not move much just in case because I went through a back windshield of a car over 40 mph. Well I get there, and I sit waiting for scans and test and shite for 5 hours.

I'm type one diabetic. I tell them this. My insulin was broken in my pocket during the crash. I tell them over 10 fricking times I need insulin my blood sugar is high and these fricking idiots keep "waiting for a doctor to confirm but we can get you water". It got to the point that my GF almost got removed from the hospital because she was standing in the hall screaming at every single person she could find telling them to get me fricking insulin till they threatened to call security.

Five hours. No insulin. I go into Diabetic Ketoacidosis(which is frickING DEADLY). So guess what? Now I have to stay at the hospital for 3 days to regulate my blood sugar...not to mention pain, insane thirst painful swelling, etc.

So my bill? 22k. For Ketoacidosis treatment...that the hospital caused. I refused to pay when they tried to take my copay. I told them they are incompetent pieces of shite. For three days I cursed out every doctor that came to see me. Just walked out and said good luck you aren't getting shite when I got discharged.

Was the most incompetent thing I could imagine. I have challenged the charges and am still going through the bullshite with it.