That's how much my first bill from the hospital is for. That's JUST for the hospital. Not the doctors' consults, the radiology stuff, the surgery itself, the anesthesiology, etc.
Granted, this $89k amount hasn't gone through the insurance "process" yet (thank GOD I have insurance, or The Geej and I would literally be out on the streets), but still... When you open up a bill and see that amount on it, it's enough to give you a massive heart attack and put you BACK in the hospital.
Cripes.
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What do you think shot that bill up so much? Was it the vinyl recliner? Maybe the inattention? Possibly the extra loud clock?
Well, whatever, $89,000 is a lot of money but can you put a price on that spa-like experience?
Oh, yeah, $89,000.
Eeeek!
5 months later we are still sorting through the bills!...let me tell you pediatric heart surgeons (all 2 of them in town) don't come cheap.
$89K sounds about like what you'd have to pay me to go digging around in someone's guts and butt.
You probably didn't realize you were worth that much. Imagine what the entire body costs?
I remember when I had my appendix out I asked for some hand lotion. They brought me a tiny tube of it, which i used once.
They billedme over $35 for that one use off lotion.
The health system in the US is fucked.
You want to have some real fun? Go to the insurance website in a couple of months and look at all the claims that have been processed and add up the total. You're going to shit your pants.
And just wait until you get one that says the insurance denied your lab work and you have to call to find out what is going on and after 4 phone calls you find out that hearing aids aren't covered. Then you tell them you had (in my case) cancer and that you are 34 and don't have a hearing aid.
Then you find out it's up to YOU to write the letter of appeal to get the lab work covered.
Yeah, this is all so much fun.
When I had a baby I was amused to look at the itemized bills for our hospital stay when they started rolling in. (I could afford to be amused because I have good health insurance, which may be why there were so many charges submitted for billing since they knew it would get paid.) My favorite was the $200-something "visit" to my hospital room from an anesthesiologist (not the one who had actually administered the epidural) just checking on how I was doing the next day. When I told him that I'd had a bad reaction to whatever his colleague had given me after she took out the epidural needle, he just said "Huh, that's interesting" and BACKED OUT OF THE ROOM, never to be seen again. Total vist was something like 10 seconds. Good times.
The Revolution begins at 5:00. First we kill the lawyers. We'll still need doctors, so we can't kill them. Ideas, anyone?
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