Santa Cruz Mike wrote in
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Be glad you can have cheap insurance... but don't get sick...

Mike



Wife fell at work, broke her knee (tibia, knee socket). This required 4
hours of surgery to reconstruct it and place a metal plate and some
screws in it to hold it together so it would heal.
She spent 4 days in the hospital for this. Hospital bill alone was
$18,000+
I've not seen a bill from the Orthopedic Specialist, since this is a
workman's comp case, they haven't sent a duplicate bill to us like the
rest of the medical services she has had to have, but based on the bill
from the first Ortopedic specialist who saw her in the ER, ($1100 for 30
min), I can somewhat imagine what he charged for 4 hours of surgery, not
even counting the follow up visits.
Basically, with all the care she has required to this point, from the
duplicate bills I have received, it now stands at around $40,000 without
the surgeons bill. *Cringe* if this had happened at home.




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Anthony

You can't 'idiot proof' anything....every time you try, they just make
better idiots.

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