Appendix - the final bill.

[SunnyD]

The hospital finally sent me the bill for having my appendix removed a few weeks ago.

Hospital bill: $27,997.xx
Insurance adjustment: ~$25,xxx.xx
Insurance paid: ~$2,497.xx
I pay: $50.00

So tell me... who got ripped off?

 

[Jimzz]

The person without insurance that gets a 28k bill but told they will reduce it to 20k since they need help.

 

[GobBluth]

You got ripped man. that whole 90/10 thing is BS!

 

[Jodell88]

$30,000 to get your Appendix removed? BS!

 

[Baptismbyfire]

Wow, they charge $28,000 for an appendix removal?

It's no wonder so many Americans are going bankrupt from medical expenses, even when they already have insurance.

 

[rcpratt]

...your appendix got ripped off.

 

[IronWing]

Think about your experience the next time you hear hospitals and doctors bitch about Medicare covering only XX% of the bill.

 

[SunnyD]

...your appendix got ripped off.

/rimshot

Thank you! We have a winner!

 

[Zeze]

...your appendix got ripped off.

 

[sze5003]

Wow my bill was 37k I had no insurance at the time and signed up for that assistance program at the hospital. They sent me a bill of 10k.

 

[Anubis]

seems your life is only worth 28k

 

[Jodell88]

Wow my bill was 37k I had no insurance at the time and signed up for that assistance program at the hospital. They sent me a bill of 10k.

Yet girls can get their boobs done for half that.

 

[Anubis]

$30,000 to get your Appendix removed? BS!

if it was an emergency that will include the ambulance fee and the ER fee and the fee for everything else associated with it

the Doc who removed it prob only billed 2-3k

 

[Mixolydian]

What causes appendicitis anyway? I still gots mine.

 

[Baked]

Should've just ripped it out yourself with a bottle of isopropyl and a bottle of whiskey. Pussy.

 

[SunnyD]

Should've just ripped it out yourself with a bottle of isopropyl and a bottle of whiskey. Pussy.

I ran out of whiskey and the isopropyl didn't taste very good...

 

[crashtestdummy]

Wow, they charge $28,000 for an appendix removal?

It's no wonder so many Americans are going bankrupt from medical expenses, even when they already have insurance.

Only an uninsured person get's charged 28k. It only actually cost the insurance company $2,500. No one got ripped of, OP, but you would have been had you not been insured.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

$30,000 to get your Appendix removed? BS!

Look at it this way: Law of Opportunity Cost. Assigning a surgeon, OR, surgical staff, recovery room, equipment, supplies and drugs that could have gone to a different operation.

If you can do it cheaper, consider doing it (may I suggest DIY?).

 

[Brigandier]

I thought prices were so high because of all the uninsured dead beats refusing to pay.

Looks like the insurance companies are the ones refusing to pay the most.

 

[angminas]

 

[highland145]

So tell me... who got ripped off?

Did they mention the kidney that they "borrowed" during your surgery?

 

[bignateyk]

What's fucked up is that the insurance company only paid $3000. That means that if you were uninsured you would have to pay the full $28K. What a scam.

 

[halik]

The hospital finally sent me the bill for having my appendix removed a few weeks ago.

Hospital bill: $27,997.xx
Insurance adjustment: ~$25,xxx.xx
Insurance paid: ~$2,497.xx
I pay: $50.00

So tell me... who got ripped off?

I paid ~22K in 2007 (well insurance paid)

 

[waggy]

What's fucked up is that the insurance company only paid $3000. That means that if you were uninsured you would have to pay the full $28K. What a scam.

they don't pay full either.

if you don't have insurance they will write it down too.


when i had my appendix out it was $28k i ended up paying nothing. for emergency's my insurance covered it all! wooo!

 

[SP33Demon]

My appendix insurance bill was $2500 (I declined a CAT scan). I paid about $100 or so of that. Let me guess, you did everything they asked? lol