No kidding :) You OK now? Dana
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 21:21:41 -0500, Duane Boudreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a look first hand at how expensive medical treatment can cost! > > My bills, at least the ones I saw added up to over 45k over the last 5 > months. On top of that there were 2 CT Scans and 2 PET Scans that weren't on > any of the bills I saw. All told my co-pay added up to about 70 bucks! Quite > a bargain! Best $70 I ever spent. > > Duane > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 5:27 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: feeling kinda foolish > > I got a bill from the hospital for $11k and change, just the stay and > a visit from a speech pathologist. The speech pathologist was three > hundred and some plus another two hundred and change for a "swallow > evaluation." > > My medical plan took care of everything except for $525 of it, so I am > looking at this saying, wait a minute, five hundred dollars for the > speech therapist? I remember that. She came in the room and introduced > herself. I said speech therapist, why do I need a speech therapist? I > had a PE not a stroke. She says I don't know, are you having trouble > swallowing? No... She shrugged and said sometimes that's what they are > worried about. Do you mind eating this cookie while I watch? > > I thought no more of it until I am being billed five hundred dollars > for it. I call up the billing department ranting and raving about > this. Come to find out.... it's my copay. Seventy-five dollars a day > for seven days. And a bargain at that, since I would have died. Umm... > nebber mind :) > > Seriously, though, that's a kind of scary glimpse of medical costs. > That's just the bill for the stay and doesn't include emergency room > visit, the dozens of blood draws and lab tests, the three CAT scans, > the Xrays, the heparin or the morphine.... > > Since a CAT scan runs about $5000 a pop the whole thing would have > been about $40k I guess not 15 as I previously guessed. Good thing I > *had* a medical plan, huh? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - RUWebby http://www.ruwebby.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:138505 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
