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re: Everyone should request an itemized hospital bill, it is really interesting
Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:11 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:11 pm to GetCocky11
I got an itemized bill for a hospital stay around 2005
I got charged $80 for a single pill of Nexium
I got charged $80 for a single pill of Nexium
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Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:19 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
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got an itemized bill for a hospital stay around 2005
I got charged $80 for a single pill of Nexium
We got charged like $10 for the gauze when I went it to get stitches once. It was probably 1 foot of gauze, maybe worth 10 cents.
Just how it works.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:22 pm to WhiteMandingo
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Just imagine how low your insurance would be if we deported all the Obese and Illegal Immigrants
Fixed it for you.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:31 pm to Walt OReilly
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It’s doesn't matter what they charge
FIFY
Posted on 4/23/24 at 4:39 pm to GetCocky11
The more gov gets involved the worse it will be. Hospitals are trying to make money just like every other business. Yes, your so called "not for profits" make more profit than the "for profits." And they can afford to waste huge amounts of money because they don't have to pay property taxes. What you have to look at is the bottom line. How much did this hospital make in profit last year? I'll bet its not much at all. Why? Because medicare, medicaid, and insurance have pre-determined rates, which are substantially less than what they charge. So, they charge ten dollars for an aspirin. They could charge .05 for it, but the 9.95 difference would have to be switched to another charge to make up for it.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 5:34 pm to Walt OReilly
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What bit you?
A bat.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 5:57 pm to GetCocky11
I had a bloodhound run into and impale herself on a hayspear 2 weeks ago, end result was a puctured lung sac and loss of a circular section of hair/skin/outer fat ~12 inches in diameter. She required 2 seperate surgeries, one to repair the sac(which also needed x-rays for diagnosis), the other to remove damaged tissue and suture, each requiring Anesthesia. She's staying at the vet's clinic for 4 weeks so they can carefully monitor/care & rewrap the wounds ad-hoc as she requires around the clock supervision & any rolling/rapid movement can re-open the sutures/impede the healing. The total charges are $4000. Just think what a hospital would bill for similar services
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:03 pm to GetCocky11
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True. Insurance paid about 31% of it.
It's a stupid perverse game of cat and mouse between the hospital and the insurance company
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:06 pm to TigerintheNO
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My parent's neighbor was a surgeon, lived in a great neighborhood best house on the block. Told my dad that his monthly malpractice insurance was more than his mortgage payments.
from my personal experience dealing with doctors/hospitals (very anecdotal, not a doctor or work in healthcare) is they have to do something pretty horrible to get found guilty of malpractice. They also have a team of lawyers ready to defend them.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:09 pm to GetCocky11
I saw mine for back surgery. I think it was 97,000 but my memory is getting worse.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:12 pm to Walt OReilly
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It’s criminal what they charge
It’s a product of the hospitals working with the insurance companies. The hospitals know the insurance will only pay a fraction of the “sticker price,” but the sticker price is so high to make people believe they have to have insurance or they will be saddled with crippling debt.
All made legal by our wonderful government. A complete antithesis of the concept of a free market.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:13 pm to Mr Clean
We still have the itemized bill for the delivery of our first child on Nov 26, 1977. The most memorable was $25.00 for the shaving kit, a disposable razor, small sample type can of shaving cream and a small plastic container for water.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:14 pm to GetCocky11
Had a few surgeries and cancer treatments years back, and my next BCBS statement had about 700k worth of charges.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:14 pm to Purplehaze
Mine may have been higher than what I recall. I have Medicaid.
This post was edited on 4/23/24 at 6:15 pm
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:18 pm to magicman534
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13k for freaking IV fluids
frick these greedy assholes
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:20 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
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got charged $80 for a single pill of Nexium
frick these greedy assholes
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:21 pm to jeffsdad
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Hospitals are trying to make money just like every other business
Not even remotely like any other business
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:22 pm to Walt OReilly
Doesn’t matter what they charge. Insurances have allowables based on contracts and the rest is written off. Don’t have insurance, you are either screwed or you negotiate. You took the risk not to have insurance.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:23 pm to Lolathon234
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had a bloodhound run into and impale herself on a hayspear 2 weeks ago, end result was a puctured lung sac and loss of a circular section of hair/skin/outer fat ~12 inches in diameter. She required 2 seperate surgeries, one to repair the sac(which also needed x-rays for diagnosis), the other to remove damaged tissue and suture, each requiring Anesthesia. She's staying at the vet's clinic for 4 weeks so they can carefully monitor/care & rewrap the wounds ad-hoc as she requires around the clock supervision & any rolling/rapid movement can re-open the sutures/impede the healing. The total charges are $4000. Just think what a hospital would bill for similar services
That's because vets aren't greedy assholes
Posted on 4/23/24 at 6:24 pm to GetCocky11
I know that’s not what it actually costs but our healthcare system so so fricked
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