Every week I spend about 2-3 hours reading emergency room bills in our database. Today’s stand-out is a patient currently paying $4,200 for three stitches and a tetanus shot in thumb.
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We paid $1,400 for an x-ray and one stitch when our son was two. The stitch went all the way through his finger, to keep the tip of his finger (caught in a door) attached while it healed. Seemed like a lot at the time, but I guess we got the stitch for free!
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I'm off and running towards our $4k deductible, due to a mysterious stomach.
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Jokes, but I hope everything is okay. Mystery illness is the worst.
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Thank Obamacare and the ever encroaching arm of government into the health care market for that.
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No doubt about it....the bills you referenced are egregious but it would be helpful to reference the cost for the same treatment at an urgent care center. The price difference would astound most people and maybe you could help change the behavior of going to an ER for 3 stitches.
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I read two years ago where Japan has been able to control costs. An MRI there costs $25.00 - Twenty Five Dollars? They have a mandatory, universal insurance system. Everyone is in, required by law. All insurance companies are non-profit, like Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
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That's Twenty Five Dollars!!! No question marks!
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Negotiated down from $10k by the insurance company, no doubt. Our health care system is a joke.
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I have a six month old. I'm just aching for the parents just because something happened to *need* the x-ray. Terrifying.
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Are they out of network? If in-network with high deductible plan, they would get negotiated rate at least, even if the insurance doesn’t pay anything yet.
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Do the bills have both the 'base' and negotiated prices for the services or just the billed amount?
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Having spent some time, completely uninsured, in other countries, the difference is staggering, & partly because of lack of profit motive. In Taiwan or Korea, a consult and an x-ray usually runs under $100 w/o insurance. A month of medication cost $40 ($4 w/ insurance).
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We have one like this, but worse. I’ll try and dig it up.
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correct you have ER facility fees, registration, RN and MD assessment diagnostic time, the actual film and then the radiologist interpretation. It all ads up.
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And yet your publication regularly discredits Medicare for All despite the NIH estimating 15% savings overnight for getting rid of health insurers. Heck of a job brownie.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4283267/ …
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