For those of you who have been following my saga, here is an update. You will remember that I had a fall in my yard and it fractured a small bone in the back of my neck. I waited 24 hours and then Alison drove me to the ER.
Looking back,an x-ray and a support collar should have done the trick but no I ended up spending 27 days in the hospital, at least half of that time trying to cure what the hospital gave me. I use the word " gave me " loosely.
So here's the shocker! The detail invoice came Sat. and it was about 8 pages printed both sides with a total of just shy of $ 200,000.00, take a look at that again and realize that my charges were about $ 7,400.00 per day for what was in essence a minor problem.
At home I take 6 pills twice per day to regulate several problems. One of those pills cost me 8 cents at home but $ 19.73 in the hospital. One medicine was priced at $ 5,073.00 and I was never told about it or had it explained to me.
Of course the insurance company will not pay this amount but even they will pay far to much and drives the cost of insurance way to high. In addition the cost I will have to pay will be several hundred dollars.
In addition the TNFP reported the there was a large collection agent that collects for all the hospitals in town and that they can get very rough and merciless in their efforts to collect money.
I would like to see a large law firm here in town devote it's efforts to studying these invoices and pressing charges for any excess and or unnecessary treatments. In addition to that, find some way to wave charges to any work that has to be redone. Right now I have two friends who have had to go back twice to have joint surgery redone and of course charged each time.
Sometimes a system gets corrupt and good people go along with the system.
