At least a mechanic tells you the bill up front, the doctors and insurance companies make sure it takes work to find out what shit will cost. $1200 for allergy tests lol. I hope that doctor fuckin dies.
At least a mechanic tells you the bill up front, the doctors and insurance companies make sure it takes work to find out what shit will cost. $1200 for allergy tests lol. I hope that doctor fuckin dies.
I’ve heard horror stories where nurses are literally scanning barcodes on medical stuff (syringes, vials , meds, blood bags) in the patient room to track costs, is this real?
Like imagine the perfusionist asking the nurse for blood for your dying ass and they’re like “one sec… beep …okay here you go, save this poor soul so we can recoup these costs”
A part of me wants to believe that it’s a cool tracibility system that tracks hospital inventory and auto orders more when they get low. But from everything I’ve heard about the US I just know it isn’t the case
I don’t know about that, but I will say the one time my partner had to go to the ER, we had someone come into the room for insurance info before a doctor came in. Now, partner did not have anything extremely serious, but still
I was…irritated about that, to be polite.
yes, I’ve been in hospitals a lot lately and they absolutely do this. takes them a couple of minutes to be able to give you meds after they come in. also they’re so understaffed that it can take 30+ minutes to get a nurse.
edit: the most mind-boggling thing was the hospital refusing to give me a UTI test after bottom surgery because UTIs from catheterization is one of the biggest sources of malpractice cases. I had a 104 degree fever from a UTI and I was having grand mal seizures because of it and they refused to do testing until my partner screamed at them.