It's prolly the diff between a 30 day and a 90 day...point being the difference between .68 cents and the 30 dollars they were charging. To check my blood sugar, using a normal meter and 12 cent test strips, 25 a pop...now they are testing that 3-4 times a day, so that ads up. It's insane. I told the hospital that I refuse to pay the bill until they give me one that is reasonable. I could understand if they marked the pill up to 1.50 or 2.00, but 30.00? That is out right price gouging. To make it worse...that .68 cents quoted above is retail...not the wholesale price they get it at.
-----Original Message----- From: Maureen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 07:16 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: [Economy] Crash of 2008 and market today mirrors fall of Communism. You are paying too much. I get a 90 day supply (180 pills) of 1000mg Metformin at Walgreens for 12.99 which comes out to seven cents a pill. Plavix, on the other hand, is $209 dollars for 30 pills or $6.96 per pill. But they have to pay for their endless commercials to drum up more business. It's not just the pills. It took the nurse three tries to get the IV in my arm so they charged me for three IV kits - at 120 bucks each. The use of the cath lab for an hour - 12 grand and that doesn't include the cost of the procedure at over 20 grand, or the doctor - another 11 grand. Total bill for the procedure - over 80 grand. Because I paid cash, they gave me a discount which reduced the price to 44 grand. I've had this procedure done three times in the last ten months for a total of over 132 grand plus the cost of doctors which adds another 30 grand plus. There is no universe in which that kind of price gouging should be legal, and no way the hospital can show their actual cost approaches their pricing. I am hoping that I can get into the new State of California high risk insurance pool before I need another surgery. The premiums are outrageous, but they can't exclude based on pre-existing conditions and they certainly won't charge over 100 grand a year. On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > The hospital I went to a couple of years ago charged me $30/pill for > metformin. If I were to go to Walgreens and buy it without insurance, > it would cost me about .68/pill. I complained to the State Attorney > General's office and they won't do anything, claiming it's the market > price...well yeah...it's called price collusio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336763 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
