steveo777 wrote:Early last month I was having severe anxiety, in fact, I thought I was having a heart attack. I drove myself into the emergency room which is only 5 minutes away from where I live. They did a blood draw and connected me to an EKG. The doctor just asked me some questions and had me lay there while the EKG did it's tests, then had me wait it out a bit for the blood work to come back. They said my heart was fine and I was not having issues there, but stress and anxiety probably set it off and could have been angina, as well. They prescribed some anti anxiety meds and sent me home about 2 hours later. I have insurance and they still sent me a $998 bill for my portion, claiming they have already billed the insurance company 2 grand. I feel I am being gouged and I really hope that all the charges made at the hospital by illegals are not being offset by people like me. I think it's bullshit and part of me wants to tell them to fuck off and pay what should be fair and reasonable charges, which clearly this is not. I'm pissed!
Anyone know a way to find out if this visit really should have cost 3 grand?
Don't feel bad Stevo. I am still paying off a 5,000 dollar bill from a one night visit with heart attack symptoms. They kept me overnight for observations, and 3 of the painful shots to the gut to thin my blood were 1,000 dollars apiece.
This was before I had a job with health insurance, we planned to make payments. My husband asked one of them how much all this would approximately cost so he could get a ball park figure and the nurse bit his head off. She made it out like he was being cheap and wasn't my life more to him than money!
He did not mean it that way and did not put it that way. But they gave me the most expensive shots and treatment that ended up not even being a heart attack at all. Stress I guess. But my blood pressure was high. We pay the minimum amount every month on that thing, we tried to argue that it was excessive but since we got no where they can get it as we can afford it. At least we pay.
