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To: gas_dr
You were not overcharged. That is the market value exactly because assholes like you stick the system with unpaid bills. You are the reason that number exists.

Hm, well according to this guy (and several other quick sites), an average foot xray should cost <$200. A bag of saline costs ~$1, but for someone to administer it, bump that to $100, if it's a cheap hospital ($600-700 for an even worse one!). Stitches? Maybe another $100. Local anesthetic? Perhaps $2-300.

Overall a total actual cost of less than a thousand. Double that for "reasonable" doctor/nurse labor of 10-30 minutes, and there's a still-overcharged total of maybe $2000. That he was then billed $8000 for.
194 posted on 05/07/2021 9:35:05 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

He got his foot opened up by a sting ray badly enough that it turned the water “crimson” around him. I don’t have any more confidence in the accuracy of his rendition of the actual medical services that were administered than I do in his business ethics.


195 posted on 05/07/2021 9:41:26 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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