Posted on 11/01/2021 3:21:35 PM PDT by grundle
A Georgia woman spent seven hours waiting for emergency room staff to check out her head injury, and left before receiving any treatment. But the real headache began when the hospital billed her almost $700 for the visit a few weeks later.
“I didn’t get my vitals taken, nobody called my name. I wasn’t seen at all,” Taylor Davis told a local Fox affiliate.
She said that she went to Emory Decatur Hospital ER in July for a head injury, and waited as long as she could stand it. “I sat there for seven hours. There’s no way I should be sitting in an emergency room … for seven hours,” she said. So she went home. And was charged $688.35 for the ordeal.
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I’m betting she had her vitals taken. Just sayin’.
If you like your doctor...
“I’m betting she had her vitals taken. Just sayin’.”
My first thought too. Notice how it was a ‘soft’ injury too...probably never happened. Just trying to get a payday.
If you can find a doctor...
A great business model - provide no services, but still get paid.
I can see Facebook or Amazon getting into this....
Usually in the ER a tech comes in after you have been placed in a room and triaged to collect your billing information. It is not taken at the front desk.
My last visit to the er, they took my ins info before I left the front desk.
Regardless, billing someone for receiving no service is BS. And vitals don’t cost $688.
I’m not so sure about that. If you come in by ambulance they do things differently than walk-ins. At least in my experience. Sometimes walk-ins do have to wait for their turn to go into the box to get vitals etc. And some of the people in the box will take a long time explaining what’s wrong with them. If you can stand in line for 10 minutes to give your name, you’re probably not dying.
I went to the ER for a concussion. They took health saving account info, and put me in a room. I waited about 3 hours before anyone took my vitals. They probably wouldn’t have done that if I wasn’t puking my guts out. Hospitals don’t like health savings accounts because they can’t charge your insurance company exorbitant amounts of money. I had an MRI, a saline IV, given anti nausea medicine and sent home. $1700 for about 10 hours.
Australia covid lockdown!
My wife cut her hand on Dec 23 afternoon. She was put in a room for 1 1/2 hrs & nobody saw her so she left. She got a bill for some $600.
Wait until healthcare is “free.”
She’s lucky; if they had actually done anything, the bill would be $15,000.00.
Davis said she called the hospital after receiving the surprise medical bill, because she was convinced it was a mistake. But she says that she was told, “it’s hospital protocol even if you’re just walking in and you’re not seen. When you type in your Social [Security number], that’s it. You’re going to get charged regardless,” she said.
“I’m very reluctant to go to the hospital now.” Fox 5 in Atlanta saw a copy of her past due notice for $688.35, as well as an email that she received from an Emory Healthcare patient financial services employee that read, “You get charged before you are seen. Not for being seen.”
At our local ER I spent exactly four hours there, and was seen by three people: (1) guy took vitals [three minutes], (2) guy took chest x-ray [3 minutes], doc brought discharge papers [3 minutes]. Haven’t received a bill yet for 9 minutes of “care”.
LMAO!!
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