Silkyninja1
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Anyone know what that inhalation tx is? Was I taxed $270 for breathing?
Jul 16, 2020 5:30 PM
Silkyninja1
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Anyone know what that inhalation tx is? Was I taxed $270 for breathing?
DYLANLEE79
Looks like a heart attack but I have no medical training.
itxtalone
97% of this is just paper work that you wont pay. whats the actually insurance bill? i had surgery and 1 day stay around 100k, paid 2k
Silkyninja1
Insurance has covered 80k so far. Still waiting for insurance on the remainder. Fingers crossed.
Damngoodstuff
Bro, look at the meds and procedures. His heart definitely took a shit on itself. My guess is this guy is extremely lucky to be alive.
NewtGinGrinch
You mean the testing ?
kevinbaken
*laughs in Canadian*
mayorpoopenmeyer
Gianttesticlemonster
JamesSidhe
Doctors pay for seeing the patient over two day $100
fazzle
*gasps in European*
UDOfromWestGermany
All Americans should have a comming to Jesus meeting about this.... It's way to cheap. Greetings from capitalist Germany...... Ironie off!
randomname27329
Behold the Great America's Health-Doesnt-Care system
DustyPigeon
Insurance companies fight most hospital bills and never pay the full invoice amount FYI.
BobusMaximus
I don't think like $90k instead of $108k really matters too much
DustyPigeon
I year ya. Just figured they could save some money if they are paying this themselves.
NerdyPegger
"Full invoice". The stuff doesn't actually cost that.
drw16
2 tablets of tylenol: $4.50
Gianttesticlemonster
1 of melatonin $4.50!
Noahbalboa82
300mL Dihydrogen Monoxide- $13.76
fructoric
This is how they keep fucking us and keeping us down. EVERY OTHER ISSUE in the US is second to the broken, criminal health care system.
diggetydug
Inhalation tx = inhalation treatment. If they gave you a nebulizer, albuterol treatment?
Silkyninja1
$270 for someone to hand me my inhaler?
diggetydug
Not inhaler. Looks like a little plastic medicinal pipe, if you will. Or it can be hooked into a mask. Look up nebulizer treatment.
Silkyninja1
Nope. Didn't get that.
scraps0fmeat
Pretty much, did you see 428$ per ml of one of the meds too.
Silkyninja1
That was the contrast they used w/the angiograph in the cath lab. Expensive stuff made from endangered baby seal blood or something I guess
R100GSPD
Welcome to America, my advice to you: don't get sick.
TheCapedProcrastinator
Why is their tylenol $2.25 per 325mg pill? My head CT, out of pocket was $2500 2 years ago. Yours was near $5k? Shitty pricing for sure.
Isgrimnur
Captive audience, time criticality. Sounds perfect for capitalism.
jasari
Because everything is marked up in hospitals because insurance companies demand huge discounts forcing the prices up to meet costs.
Damngoodstuff
This is a lesser known fact, but it never gets said because it's more sexy to say stuff like "Fuck American hospitals."
jasari
Like most big problems it's a complicated political mess and everyone would rather point fingers rather than be the first to make a change.
GobertSchlong
What was the issue?
76000BatteryLlamas
Splinter
AnxiouslySarcastic
Stubbed toe.
Silkyninja1
Myocardial Infarction due to Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
yourebreathtaking
ie: heart attack
Silkyninja1
Sort of
blarglebrle
Heart spasms due to artery's inner layer peeling off and falling into heart. I have heard it hurts a lot & is difficult to fix. Insurance1/2
blarglebrle
2/2 should cover the vast majority of that. Or negotiate with hospital not dealing with insurance is worth something if you can't afford it.