That bill of $83/k is sooo outrageous off the charts. Wouldn’t pay a penny of it until it is reworked. Earlier this year I had an ER bill of $3.5/k for a 1.5 hour visit.
I contested as much of it as possible to chop a few hundred dollars off. Still feel like they chumped me out of big $.
All I had was BP checks and vitals, IV, blood for labs, CT exam and some pain meds to ease passage of kidney stone.
That stinks. A $6 dollar bottle of Passwan would have stopped the pain in an hour and dissolved the stones in about 24.