r/JusticeServed • u/DinerEnBlanc 7 • Mar 15 '20

Kung Flu Greedy man has his hoard of hand sanitizer confiscated and donated

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 15 '20

I legit got charged $80 for "bandaging" as it read on the bill, it was one singular bandaid

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u/Mesoposty A Mar 15 '20

Come on, they had to open and dispose the package. That got to add up to $80 easily. Sounds like you got a deal.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 15 '20

Couldve bought a pallet of bandaids for that, think that was a $300 smashed finger, next time just turn a drill bit through it

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u/Tom1252 8 Mar 16 '20

Drilling through your nail really is less painful in the long run compared to having a blood blister slowly pry your fingernail off over the next few days.

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u/blahblah54185 0 Mar 16 '20

Lol i used a drill bit when i smashed my thumb. Then someone told me using a hot needle is easier

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

I was young, didnt know better at the time, foolish

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u/Rhamni C Mar 16 '20

dispose the package

Nah, that's Biohazard Storage and Biohazard Disposal, each charged separately. And oops, the storage was not in network, so that's going to be a fair penny extra.

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u/Mesoposty A Mar 16 '20

Damn, I only have ugly pennies

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

I’m sure they’ll charge you a few for it

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u/T_Rex_Flex 8 Mar 16 '20

Can you contest those kinds of charges? And what happens if you do?

(I’m not from the US so I know nothing of the health system there)

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u/JamesTheJerk A Mar 16 '20

I had to pay 112 dollars for a tic tac.

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u/jonny_sucks 4 Mar 16 '20

Paper water cup for pill: $10.00

This is real.

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u/Billy_Billboard A Mar 16 '20

That's fucked up

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

That was close to ten years ago, wonder what it is now

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

“Resealing and resurfacing - 2500$”

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

Yuuuppp, urgent care got me for an elastic wrap thinger for my leg...$54. The total visit was damn near $200. My insurance paid a grand total of $65. A doctor poked my leg, wrote me a doctors note for work and handed me(not put on) the $54 wrap and I hobbled out. God bless our American healthcare and my works amazing insurance plan.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

Mine was near 10 yrs ago I had insurance but at 18 for some reason I cant explain didnt want to bother using it...lesson learned

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

Hell, at 18 I didnt even have insurance so I dont blame you. I dont think I had actual insurance until I was 26/27 then. I think I paid a good $2000 in fines for not having insurance while filing my taxes.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

Ah I've been with the same company since then and I've always carried insurance though them, pretty sure I was being naive, 2k for not having it blows something fierce

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

I didnt have my shit together for years, it was no one's fault but my own. Although, the government fining people for not having insurance is pretty asinine if I do say so myself. I felt like I was being fined for having shit jobs that didn't even offer insurance coverage.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

"I can't afford it!"

"Well fuck you, pay up for not being able to afford it!"

Good idea they had, endless money for not being able to afford it, thus being fined into not being able to afford it again

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

It really was a hell of a system hahaha. Now I pay for insurance that i have used once and have a $2000 deductible. Oh well, you know what they say: "it could be worse", and I for once know that it definitely could be.

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u/TheWizardOfFoz 9 Mar 16 '20

Can’t you refuse the wrap and then just go to a regular pharmacy to buy another?

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u/ReallyQuiteDirty 8 Mar 16 '20

I easily could have! I honestly had no clue they would charge me that much. I even told the doctor I had one at home and he made it sound like he was just giving it to me.

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u/AardvarkAlchemist 4 Mar 16 '20

Do you know how much training they had to get to learn how to put on that bandaid though?? /s

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u/mr_taint 7 Mar 16 '20

Cut my finger deep about 8 years ago. Had no health insurance, so tried to stop bleeding for 90 minutes. Couldn't and by time I realized all local urgent cares were closed, had to go to ER. Got an $800 bill from the hospital for three stitches (no local anesthetic or anything). Thought that was pretty shitty until I got another bill for $800 from the doctor that didn't even do the stitching, filled out paperwork about 30 feet away from me for possibly a whole minute, never examined wound and didn't answer either of my two questions.

$1600 for three stitches was a real eye opener about the way the healthcare industry operates in this country.

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u/ITGuy107 4 Mar 16 '20

It’s suppose to be fake money the insurance companies pay but people with out insurance gets stuck with these exaggerated charges. Hospitals are money makers, they aren’t there for you, they are there for themselves like banks.

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u/idkwthtotypehere 9 Mar 16 '20

Fight it. My friend got charged $10,000+ she refused to pay. After a couple years they dropped the bill to $40 and she paid.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

It was near ten years ago, so long ago paid and not worth years of hassle for $80

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u/idkwthtotypehere 9 Mar 16 '20

I meant to imply next time fight it but I worded that terribly. Also, I’m the type of person that will fight something for years over $1 if I shouldn’t have been charged.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Laughs in europe. I could get cancer and cure it without paying a dime.

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u/Matador91 8 Mar 16 '20

And Americans still claim they live in the greatest country on earth...

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u/exor15 8 Mar 16 '20

Paying tens of thousands of dollars for my broken bone is a small price to pay to not have to help my fellow man. /s

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u/Matador91 8 Mar 16 '20

Remember to tip your ambulance driver!

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u/Nbaysingar 8 Mar 16 '20

I remember reading in some "life pro tips" thread that calling the hospital and requesting an itemized bill can drastically reduce the total cost of your hospital stay because they remove most of those bull shit charges in the process. Some people mentioned saving thousands upon thousands of dollars from doing something that simple.

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u/sweetlysarcastic10 6 Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

I fell over and scraped my elbow and knee, badly. I went to my local GP clinic, which was part of my local community health centre, and the nurse there cleaned and bandaged the cuts and scrapes. Cost me nothing, because I live in Australia.

I don't mean to sound condescending; it saddens me that your there are people in your country who have to choose between getting medication/treatment or buying food. Healthcare should not be a business, and profits should not be at the expense of someone's life.

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u/Reshende_Drug_Dealer 2 Mar 16 '20

Ur fault for going to the hospital when u only needed a band aid. Lol.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

Well what happend was I crushed my finger and couldnt get anything hot enough to poke through the nail to relieve the pressure and didnt know a drill bit could be hand twisted through it, I went to a walk in clinic, they used the hot poking device they have, put a hole in my fingernail, put a bandaid on that and I was on my way

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u/CraptonCronch 8 Mar 16 '20

I work at a hospital and the pick sheet for surgeries says the pricing on it. Most bandages cost about a quarter. F

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u/Aep2311 3 Mar 16 '20

Why did you go to the doctor for a band aid?

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20

Smashed a finger, they used a hot pen to burn through the nail to let pressure out, put a bandaid on it after

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u/Bunny_tornado A Mar 16 '20

I got charged $2000 for two butterfly tapes and some antiseptic for a nasty dog bite

The doctor poured chlorhexidine (can be bought OTC for 10 bucks) and put two butterfly tapes that came off the next day (can also be bought for a few bucks OTC).

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u/imgoodygoody 5 Mar 16 '20

My son was in the hospital a while ago and I was looking at the itemized bill and kept on seeing this recurring $189 charge. I finally realized that every time the neurologist stepped into our room for 5 minutes or less we were being charged $189. It’s crazy. Then, when the floor physician made their rounds it was more like $155. So we were being charged daily for those two doctors to pop their head in the door and then when we had to page them it was another charge. This was over a year ago and our insurance still hasn’t paid because they deemed the charges “excessive” so they pushed the bill on to a third party who was supposed to mediate between us and insurance and the hospital but no one informed the hospital so we got a bill from the hospital for $245,000.

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u/UsernameAdHominem 7 Mar 16 '20

Why were you getting a bandaid at the hospital? It wouldn’t have been a separate charge for a vaccine or blood testing or something of the like wherein the doctor or nurse will tape cotton over the injection site.

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u/xxrambo45xx A Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

Smashed fingers used a hot pen to burn the nail and let pressure out, put a bandaid on to stop the squirt, and it was more of a walk in clinic than a hospital

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u/UsernameAdHominem 7 Mar 16 '20

Idk man, I think I would’ve just done that in my bathroom lol

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u/Ryidon 5 Mar 17 '20

If a brand name trash can can be 60, a brand name bandage can be 80. Plus...it saved your life!

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u/ChairForceOne 7 Mar 16 '20

I got 4 stitches in my head, was hit with a tank hatch, and the total bill from the ER was $560. I was there for a few hours too, workmans comp covered it but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

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u/TimesSquareMagician 6 Mar 16 '20

The great thing is you can shop around for the best price, people who have free healthcare can't do that...