On the flip side.... three years ago I had the bones in my left leg (directly above and below the joint) smashed like a chicken bone under a hammer.
8 hour surgery, some 15 pins and screws (still have two) three weeks in hospital, cast for 10 months, 11 round trips by ambulance (100+ miles each way), two weeks of inpatient rehab, one month out-patient rehab three times a week, all drugs, MRI's, Xrays etc included.... 3000 dollars.total. Hospital has US/German certification. Great doctors, nurses and therapists. On Nov 8, 10:03 am, studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I know is that I've been paying my hospital bills... > in cash. > > What I don't do is pay what the first bill says I should. > I ask for a discount, and they give me one. > > My initial hospital bill was a quaint arbitrary number for > $43,000....$5,000 a day for just the room I stayed. > > The discount was almost 75%, which meant I paid $11,000 in the end... > *if* I paid within 10 days...so I did. > If I wasn't able to pay within 10 days, I would be responsible for > paying the full $43,000 in monthly payments. > > If I would have had insurance, the insurance companies would > have probably paid at least 50% of that. > > The doctors bills and other services were separate from the hospital > bill... > the doctors like making arbitrary numbers also, but in their case, > they > won't give you a discount unless you share your total financial > background > with them, and if you have more than $7,500 in liquid assets, you > have > to pay the whole amount. > > One doctor I have to pay $2,000 for what amounts to be about 2 hours > work, > of which the tests he did were a total waste of time and showed > nothing useful. > > I'm now looking forward to my new hospital bill...it should initially > be > somewhere around $50,000. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
