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Your heart attack bill: $3,300 in Arkansas, $92,000 in California
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Micthebear
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My dad recently had double by-pass surgery and once it was all said and done his bill from the hospital was a little over $200,000....
mistaballoonhands
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I'm guessing the above was for a NSTEMI or perhaps a cardiac ruleout. Realistically, the dude in AR probably had a ruleout with CE's and the guy in CA had a cath with stents.
In our ER every person that comes in with c/o CP gets CE, CBC, BMP, coags, EKG, cxray, two peripheral lines and an aspirin. The labs and EKG are repeated three times, two hours apart.
PICK3
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I will be in an MRI tube in 1.5 hours
$100 out of pocket
the rest covered by Uncle Sugar and Plunkey
fuck that experience!
knot used to such confined spaces
xannies first next time!
kx250rider
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I knew about this, and very few people believed me until a few of them also experienced it. Texas is generally 80% less than CA, simply due to the malpractice suits gone wild in CA, and capped in TX. Health insurance makes everything worse and more expensive, as is proven by my wife's kidney stone surgery last year (not lithotripsy; they had to do the old fashioned surgery due to the size of the stones). It was outpatient, and we got there at 6AM; home for dinner. $5500 cash out the door with all doctor, Rx, operating room, anesthesiologist, CT scans, etc etc. No insurance involved. 4 days from first calling the doctor to the recovery room all done. If we used insurance, it would STILL have been $5000 in deductibles, copays, and non-covered meds. PLUS it would have taken months to arrange, and wait for referrals and authorizations, and the doctors say it would have thus caused MUCH MORE SEVERE circumstances to have waited, and it would have escalated to a several-days hospitalization with more destructive surgery.
People who think medical insurance is so all-fired great, and that Obamacare is somehow going to help, PLEASE go to the DMV, and try to get them to something for you that's slightly out of the ordinary, like rushing you a replacement license... Listen to them laugh, and then think hard about how that would be, if it were asking to speed up an appointment to check a weird sore lump in your testicle that you don't want to wait 6 weeks to have checked.
Put your medical insurance money in the bank and leave it there, and know that you can go get care NOW when you need it, and pay. And go to AR or TX if it's going to be something expensive.
Charles
People who think medical insurance is so all-fired great, and that Obamacare is somehow going to help, PLEASE go to the DMV, and try to get them to something for you that's slightly out of the ordinary, like rushing you a replacement license... Listen to them laugh, and then think hard about how that would be, if it were asking to speed up an appointment to check a weird sore lump in your testicle that you don't want to wait 6 weeks to have checked.
Put your medical insurance money in the bank and leave it there, and know that you can go get care NOW when you need it, and pay. And go to AR or TX if it's going to be something expensive.
Charles
PICK3
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fuck I get hard when you talk like that
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knot around here
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U.S. prescription drug spending drops for first time in 58 years - CBS News
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