HOLY FUCK! I just got my hospital bill!!
 

I'm in there a total of 4 days, saw the doctor for a total of MAYBE 30 minutes, and my bill is fucking $14,804.20. WHAT THE FUCK! Next time, even if I'm dying, I'll sweat it out at home. Christ.

I hope the surgery was successful

shit! did you have a body transplant? what did u have done?

If you were an illegal immigrant,,,you would owe nothing and have gotten the same service.

join the club man..I hope u didnt get any morphine..the hospital charges 2 legs for that shit

Surgery? No surgery. I should have gotten that while I was there though haha for that price. I had a bad upper resp infection/viral infection that kept me on a 103 fever for 3 days. Got some fluids and meds via I.V. and that's it. The hospital was so over-packed, I was in the ER for 2 days before I got into a room in the literal basement of the hospital that was years old and not maintained. They even told me this, because they were so packed they had to open the floor/wing up just for "overflow". The treatment while I was there was horrible to boot. I had no pressure on my I.V. so blood starting flowing out of my hand into the I.V. upwards. The damned nurse just told me to leave it be it would go back to normal soon, which it didn't. I had to tell the NURSE how to connect/disconnect my I.V. because she was pulling so hard at the tubes she put a nice kink in it. Un-fucking-real.

wow...total ripoff....society going downhill fast

TDF,

LOL, I actually requested it but for some reason or another my gf said they never got around to giving it to me. I'm going to visit the hosp later and request an itemized bill. Check this snippet out from an article:

"Like the charge for newborn blood tests and a crib mobile. That stopped me in my tracks," recalls Johnson. "As far as I know, my husband never had a baby."

Unreal what they do. Best and worst business man, I swear.

Phoenix,

Yeah man, that's too true. Doesn't Canada give you free health care but in return rip you a new asshole with tax?

A relative of mine was just in the hospital after nearly dying from a brain aneurism.

Total bill: $250,000.

Insurance covers it, though. Can't say enough about having medical insurance... you never know when shit will hit.

Fred,

That's what I should have done, gone in there mumbling some BS and pointing to my head and the thermometer. Shit.

I can believe that you have to pay for health care.

Have a guess what it costs in the UK for hospital treatment? Sweet FUCK ALL.

Hope you are feeling better though. Next time jump on a plane to the UK and fall ill here. We will treat you for free. Loads of people do it.

thank god we don't have to worry about bills like that up here..

I agree.Wait until you get a seperate bill from the doctor himself then you will really see why medical billers make so much coin.Morphine made me feel like suckling the warm teet of a mothers milk. I dont think I could have survived sitting in the hospital without it.

Hunter,

Jesus man. I'm glad they're doing OK now? (I hope?). My grandmother underwent surgery for the exact same thing about 8 years ago. Knock on wood, she's doing better now, but strange pains and so forth remain all over her body. She had a week to live, the doctor had found it just in time after she had been complaining for about a year or MORE about terrible headaches and so forth.

14k$ and no surgery? What the fuck!

God I'm glad to live in Quebec, medical help cost nothing here, not a penny!

Not to piss you off, but isnt there an insurance thatll cover that? I know its not common to have health care insured in the US and I know shit bout how it works, but I do know this would be covered by my insurance here.

Relish,

Yeah despite some horrible coughing here and there still and feeling nauseaus. Thanks!

thinkx,

You can apply for something here called "Charity Care" if you don't have insurance (which I don't) and you'll be left paying nothing or a percentage IF they approve you. Heh.

god bless the german security system! Insurance pays it all :D

When I was taking care of my Father the largest bill I received in the mail from a hospital at one time was for 373K. It was weird to see a personal bill that large on paper...:Oh crap

Is it itemized?

I don't understand the american medical system.

those fees sound ridiculous.

You know what rocks, is on the bill they have an area to fill in credit card information. LOL. EFFFFFFFFF THAAAAAAT!

doc just charged my insurance 4k for sticking 2 fingers up my ass

Oops sorry, just read you were going back to get itemized.. good call! Watch out for "mucous collection" (means you asked for a tissue)..
Total rip job.

pretty much..but you still get a bill for some things


it is all a ripoff

when do the people get to take back the power?

I am in wrong biz , i need to open up a Hospital

Isn't that covered by your insurance?

I read that the medical/health industry is 20% of US GDP. That industry pretty much runs the show...

Tom,

When I visit (this way they cannot remove shit), I will request it. Believe me I will. I'll post some of the funnier charges perhaps. :)

LiveDose,

I STILL am getting bills about 10X the amount of mine for my father who passed of cancer 2 years ago. Let him rest in peace. I'd say a grand total hovering over 800K++++.

move to norway and get it for free!

what would insurance cost per month to cover that in the US?

Not everyone has insurance, I guess some people chose not to. Its around $500/month for health insurance, but damn worth it. I recently had spine surgery Im sure the bill will be in the 6 digits. :2 cents:

justsexxx,

Sure...if I had any. :)

thinkx,

Maybe as deniska posted $500/mo or so, some places $250 I've seen. I'm never one to go to a hospital or doctor, and haven't in a couple of years or so, so I never justify the cost. :) Maybe a mistake on my part, and I'll be looking into plans shortly perhaps. :)

deniska,

Ouch! Hope you're recovering well. My mom had about 4 spinal surgeries. One of which they fused computer chips to her spine, which later had to be removed due to sorts of malfunctions/issues. She went through holy hell, was in the hospital for 34 days. She's still in incredible pain daily.

There was a story on 60 minutes this week how hospitals charge people 4x the amount for same procedures without insurance than they charge people with insurance.

Here is a link to the story: Hospitals: Is the Price Right?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1362808.shtml

Thanks polster, that's sickening.

Health Insurance.

Wow!

Are you responsible for your father's bill too?:helpme

Sometimes the hospital billing will offer a % of the bill to be paid in full.
6 days in the hospital with my son ran 35k, we were expecting the normal 15k for the birth.

Time to keep up on health and fitness, to try to avoid the hospital bills, these days. Some people just eat crap and sit on there ass everyday and wait for another medical issue to pop up. Not saying that's your case, but I seen it all the time.

Hope you get feeling better ASAP!!!

Im sure you can get something for less then $500. You can contact GHI i think they have the lowest insurance premiums. Trust me you never know when you will need it. Im a healthy 25 year old male that happened to have a snowboarding injury while I was in Austria two months ago. Next thing I know im in New York having a cervical spine fusion. The nice doctors in Austria gave me some pain killers and put me on a plane to New York. I guess you get what you pay for and thats what you get when you have free health care.

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Id've done it for half that.

Lexi,

Thanks! Yep, you bet I am, as is my family.

yep expensive as fuck. fuck the doctors they only try to save your life :)

whats happend ?

Tomud

All you people saying health care is free, IT'S NOT FREE. Here in Canada we're getting assraped in taxes year after year for crappy roads, crappy healtcare and sweet fuck all.

I'd rather pay when i fall ill, get private insurance than pay 50% in taxes.
Fuck that socialist shit.

if you need to get circumstized call me 1800- alphonso2sexy

I understand totally. I owe over $50,000 and when I didn't have insurance it was less per hospital stay than when they I got insurance. If you have insurance the hospital charges more. If you don't have insurance then they charge less. Same with any other doctor. You can thank frivolous lawsuits for that shit.

So I tell them I don't have insurance, then when I get the bill I say I am so sorry I completely spaced it out I do have insurance here is the number and they can't up the bill then haha. It works every time! LOL Fuckers. They are part of what makes it so hard for small businesses to get better insurance plans for their employees, that and frivolous law suits, money hungry people.

Makes me sick, but I still am very against the government handling our health insurance. The DMV is so fucked up imagine what they would do to our hospitals. We would all be in rooms like you were in the basement with gross walls over crowed people there for no reason. No one get's turned away in America if you don't have insurance. I got 2 operations on my foot with no insurance. So these freak tin foil hat wearing fools who like to spread fear to people by saying America is the worse because we don't let the government cover our medical are clueless. I swear it makes the head on the back of my neck stand up, those tin foils head people hate the government but want the government to pay for everything in their lives. Idiots.

Anyway if you would like to talk to me more about this off the board I know so many loops and wholes on how to get out of those bills. You just have to know how to work the system and 90% of people don't know how to and just take it up the ass. haha

I would rather pay higher taxes than have to worry about health insurance.