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Surgery
After 18 months of bullshit I won't bore you with I had surgery in September.
Outpatient surgery. Check in at 6 AM, discharged at about 2:30 PM, home for supper.
The bill was 295,000 one dollar bills, or 14,750 twenty dollar bills.
My insurance provider, who handles my medicare plus, said nope, we'll give you $95,000.
Everyone said OK.
My out of pocket was $400 to fix the hearing aid they broke.
What a country.
Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
- griff
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Re: Surgery
That is some insanity. Elon gonna fix that for sure.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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Re: Surgery
Get an itemized bill.
You will find dozens of WHAT's.
Then try asking about them.
BTW, the 295K is only for the uninsured.
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Re: Surgery
xoxoxoBruce wrote:
After 18 months of bullshit I won't bore you with I had surgery in September….
I hope the surgery got all the bullshit out and that it won’t recur.
…BTW, the 295K is only for the uninsured.
Maybe they gave him a discount because he didn’t come out any better looking than when he went in. They’re still entitled to charge him something though, it wasn’t their fault, modern medicine just can’t yet work that kind of miracle.
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Glad you made it out in one piece! I, too, had outpatient surgery recently, but mine was only billed at a measly $110,000-ish. What a bargain!
- griff
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Always schedule surgery for January so you can blow through the deductible and live the rest of the year like an insured person.
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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That 295 seems really high even with the medical system as screwy as it is.
I had a hip replacement with two days inpatient that cost much less.
A clue as what you had done? I won't tell anyone.
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The bill was 295,000 one dollar bills, ... My insurance provider, ... said nope, we'll give you $95,000. Everyone said OK.
Now remember what right wing extremist said when they wanted everyone to not have Obamacare. And remember what the left wing extremists said when they tried to subvert Obamacare as blackmail for their agenda. Now the number of left and right wing extremists increases. Due to a shortage of moderates - people who learn facts before having an accusation.
- Clodfobble
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Fun fact I learned the other day: nearly all of the developed nations that have single-payer healthcare instituted those systems in the 1930s as a response to the Great Depression. The US government attempted to do it back then, too, and the key reason they couldn't get it through was that it would have created racially-integrated hospitals. Bigots were so determined to avoid sharing a building with a black person--or being a white doctor forced to treat black patients--that they killed a program they otherwise were widely in favor of.
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Thank a bigot today!
If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis