When one of my older relatives had to be hospitalized some yrs ago, I publicly said to everyone to look out for the cost of the room, and went on to explain that 1 night in a hospital is more than a 2 week cruise on the most expensive cruise liner. They all laughed at me until they saw the bill some time afterwards.
There is the joke or some other type on anecdotal thing from sometime back in regard to this scenario about living on a cruse ship or in a 5* Hotel and nursing home rates
I was in and out of an endoscopy clinic in less than 2 hours last month and just got the statement from Premera today.
The total cost:almost $5600. The insurance company allowed them $2600, about $260 of which I will have to pay.
This is outpatient care. It’s chilling to think what a stay in the hospital costs now.
I take my own meds, and take them on my body’s schedule it’s use to. Plus I take a bottle of Tylenol. And make sure they don’t confiscate them. Even take my own bottle water, I’m not drinking melted ice I can taste the Chems in. Don’t eat the food either, it’s Over salted, red dyes, and that crap horse manure tasting Ensure is SOY based, which is a big NO. Fiber is a NO too.
And if you stick EKG leads on me you best put paper tape under them I break out in huge itchy welts that have to be treated with Predisone. And when I tell you to use a 22 gauge IV Cath, go find 1. I’m sick and tired of Blown Veins simply because mine are tiny even if I’m not dehydrated. Train your tech to know what size a patients veins are.