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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | rodeoveteran - 2014-12-12 10:08 AM LRQHS - 2014-12-12 8:32 AM I just feel like I should have gotten a new liver for that price.... .....or two breedings to Corona Cartel........ba-da-bum. (man, they could of thrown in at least one of those breedings, eh? )
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Location: Carpenter, WY | The bone building shot I get once a month is just over 18K and that is one shot!!!!!!!! I have a 4" thick file of insurance payments and bills but haven't even dared to add all the stuff up.
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | teehaha - 2014-12-12 10:36 AM The bone building shot I get once a month is just over 18K and that is one shot!!!!!!!! I have a 4" thick file of insurance payments and bills but haven't even dared to add all the stuff up.
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Location: Vicksburg MS | The last time I had surgery, I was 23. I'm 47 now, so the math here is easy. I had two, three weeks apart. One a biopsy and one to remove the tumor. Bills were a smidge over 23,000. Insurance refused to pay claiming the tumor was pre-existing to my coverage. More than likely since I'd only had it 6 months at the time, but I didn't know I had a tumor...
Anyhoo I hired a lawyer to deal with the insurance company and he asked me to request an itemized bill. One of the many things listed was a marker. A marker I assumed they used to draw the purple lines on me to indicate where they'd need to cut to remove the tumor.
Now I know darn well they didn't use all the ink out of that $11 marker, but I'll be ****ed if I could find it in my bag of hospital swag when I left. :( Plus for that kind of money and having been told there was a plastic surgeon who made sure my ENT didn't leave me looking like Frankenstein when he sewed me back up, I was kinda miffed the plastic surgeon didn't suck out some of the fat under my chin. They had my face filleted, how much more time could that have taken? LOL |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | My bills are still coming in but I did see one for over $36,000 just for the hospital stay and that was 4 days. Still waiting on surgeon, anesthesiology (sp) etc. I will say the food was good, just not sure it was worth $36,000. |
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Location: Wyoming | I have had both hips replaced at aprox $100,000 each then 2 knee replacements at $89,000.00 each neck surgery at $75,000.00 a hysterectomy I believe was about $23,000.00. I'll tell you I have a CPap it broke so I look to see how much if I buy the exact same one outright about $850.00 but Lincare tells me that my insurance will be bill almost $3500.00. No wonder my insurance went up to $1130.00 a month for just me!
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Location: Nebraska | I think they charge patient's like $20 for a box of kleenex! I've hung IvIG before when I was in school and the nurse told me it cost over $80k. Talk about no pressure hanging that bag right! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Funny you should mention this.... In the shopping center I work in... we've had a few empty suites..Just the other day I noticed one of them had been leased.. I was walking by and looked in and saw.... a desk..... several chairs.... and an ATM... I thought to myself...(self: someone is setting up a con job... just like in The Sting)
Sure enough!!! Today they put up a sign.. Low Cost Auto Insurance!!!! |
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Location: North Pole | With my first son, I spent eight weeks in the L&DICU in bed rest after he went into heart failure and almost died at 28 weeks. I got a call after he was born while we were still in the NICU with him: "This is ______ with BCBS, I was calling to inform you that due to some paperwork delays - it was determined that your entire pregnancy was a pre existing condition and we will be pulling back all of our previous payments to your healthcare provider."
We fought and fought and fought - but there was nothing to be done. We ended up paying just over 100k in medical bills from the last eight weeks of my pregnancy. They paid for everything from his birth forward, thank goodness because the NICU bill for TWO WEEKS was double my eight week bill. I've never been so happy to be married to a logger in all my life. lol |
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Location: North Pole | winning edge - 2014-12-12 7:59 PM
The last time I had surgery, I was 23. I'm 47 now, so the math here is easy. I had two, three weeks apart. One a biopsy and one to remove the tumor. Bills were a smidge over 23,000. Insurance refused to pay claiming the tumor was pre-existing to my coverage. More than likely since I'd only had it 6 months at the time, but I didn't know I had a tumor...
Anyhoo I hired a lawyer to deal with the insurance company and he asked me to request an itemized bill. One of the many things listed was a marker. A marker I assumed they used to draw the purple lines on me to indicate where they'd need to cut to remove the tumor.
Now I know darn well they didn't use all the ink out of that $11 marker, but I'll be ****ed if I could find it in my bag of hospital swag when I left. :( Plus for that kind of money and having been told there was a plastic surgeon who made sure my ENT didn't leave me looking like Frankenstein when he sewed me back up, I was kinda miffed the plastic surgeon didn't suck out some of the fat under my chin. They had my face filleted, how much more time could that have taken? LOL
It's unsanitary to reuse those. Once they are opened they are no longer sterile. :)
I found this out when I paid for two of them after each of my knee surgeries in high school. Lol |
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Location: in the middle of backwoods iowa | I just had a 28,000 hysterectomy. I am sooo looking forward to the bilateral masectomy bill. Seeing my chemo was 10k for 1 round- i am glad i have good insurance! |
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Location: The edge of no where | TrailGirl - 2014-12-12 8:49 AM That's just nuts. I do NOT get why it costs so darn much!!
The liability insurance the hospital has to carry.....and to jump thru the other 5000 hoops that we've decided are needed. Also, they are forced to treat many people for free...including those that are here illegally. Anyone care to guess what the hospital blew treating the guy in Dallas with Ebola? Then they had to settle more $$$ with his family. When we allow the system to be abused like this, those of us with insurance that at least make payments on our bills wind up paying for all the deadbeats. |
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