Two stitches and a tetanus shot...$900

If it was two stitches, man up and put a Band-Aid on it, butterfly if necessary.

 

This thread should piss everyone off.

Seriously...why should we continue to accept this bullshit? $900 for a cut? Calling ahead when you're seriously hurt? Treating yourself?

We need to change this way of thinking.

 

You went to the ER.

It costs more there.

Saline, Super Glue, Neosporin, Band-Aid.

 

I'll resist the urge to make a smug comment.

 

Well, the tetanus shot isn't exactly a readymade home application.

And if you do get lockjaw, well, then you be fucked.

 

Never pay the first insurance bill.

Have it resubmitted and see what the new number is.

 

99 times out of 100, I would have. This time, for some reason, I saw the jagged flesh and blood and panicked. I was embarrassed when I got to the hospital and they cleaned it up a little and said it was almost too small a cut for stitches. Next time, I'll be sure to sever it so I get my money's worth.

 

My guess was Chef had authored a best of book and "Two Stitches And A Tetanus Shot...$900" was the title.

 

I hope you got a prescription for some really strong pain meds that you can resell and recoup your losses for being such a simpering little girl.

 

The reason I'll never go to an ER unless I'm taken unconscious:

Few years ago I went to an insurance-covered urgent care for "The Worst Headache Of My Life," the kind they warn you about because it might signal a blood clot. Urgent care decided I needed to go to the ER. I was smart enough to have a friend drive me instead of taking the ambulance, which would have cost a small fortune because all ambulance companies are private now.

I went to an insurance-approved hospital. The hospital visit and any medications I received while I was there were covered. What was not covered was the CAT scan. Seems as if the machine, inside the hospital, was operated by a separate, private company that was not insurance-approved. And the radiologists who read the CAT scan were part of a doctor's group that was also not insurance-approved. So I paid out-of-network rates for two services in which I didn't have a choice of provider because they were AT THE FUCKING HOSPITAL. Even after fighting and negotiating I still paid out a total of $6,000 for that incident.

 

Ugh! That's outrageous.

What was the final verdict, BTW? Just a migraine?

 

I would not have paid that. That's BS.