I just got the statement from my insurance company, $2,305! Why is everything in medicine so expensive?!
Wow MRI's are expensive!
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i am assuming this was for your knee......what was the result?
your was cheap!!!
I just got the BILL! for the ones on my Head and Neck $5,750. IInsurance paid most oit , bit I still owe $268
that was when they were looking to see if I had a Brain Tumor or stroke or annurism ( SP ? ) or SLipped Disc , during what turned out to be lyme Menigitas.
what was your for ?
I just got the BILL! for the ones on my Head and Neck $5,750. IInsurance paid most oit , bit I still owe $268
that was when they were looking to see if I had a Brain Tumor or stroke or annurism ( SP ? ) or SLipped Disc , during what turned out to be lyme Menigitas.
what was your for ?
Medical stuff is expensive because big companies want to kill poor people. We just live in the loophole by having insurance.
It realy costs alot because most doctors like fast exotic cars
It realy costs alot because most doctors like fast exotic cars
Doctors can make a lot of money but in the end their salaries are only a fraction of what health costs are. I'd guess Insurance and paperwork are a huge part. My local doctors office has just as many administrators as they do doctors.
MRI machines cost a couple of million a pop. it also costs a huge amount (a million? more? since tuition is a tiny fraction of the cost of running a med school and teaching hospital) to educate a single radiologist. add it all up, and yes, MRIs are expensive. but when they're needed they're priceless, no?
Your telling me. I got an angry call from my dad, 2 MRI's, 1 Kat Scan, and 2 hospital trips.
Is that a test they do to see if you have any chocolate wafers on your person?ThePriceSeliger said:
Yeap, most of this people get paid for what they know and not for what the do.Toshi said:
And please be thankful for having insurance, most people in third world countries (as mine) doesn't even have insurance for their cars or life insurance, about 10% of the people in this country has a health insurance.
Just remember to squeeze every single penny you've spent in insurance... when you need to.
i remember when i was in the US.. i had to see a doc almost every week for like 6 months.. and it was a crapload of money on doc fees and pills.... it was crazy insane.
i moved back home, use the very same pills, see a MUCH better doc (john hopkins MD, in a clinic where a thirds of the docs are ivy leaguers) than the crappy docs there were in the little town in alabama for much much much less it was in the US....
i moved back home, use the very same pills, see a MUCH better doc (john hopkins MD, in a clinic where a thirds of the docs are ivy leaguers) than the crappy docs there were in the little town in alabama for much much much less it was in the US....
No argument with you on that one la cleta, most of my posts are sarcastic anyway, insurance is a life saver, literaly, I got my statement awhile back I had racked up about $2000 in dental $700 in eye doctor and $1500 getting x-rays of stuff that mite have been broken, my copay total abou two fiddy. Not Half Bad
with the oh so flaky wafersvalve bouncer said:Is that a test they do to see if you have any chocolate wafers on your person?
i like chocalate wafers!
Yes, I am grateful for the insurance, I didn't have to pay for the MRI out of pocket at all. Just a $10 copay for the doctor visit.
I guess its a catch-22 here. Medicine is expensive because we have insurance, but insurance is expensive because Medicine is expensive!
The MRI was for my knee, and it was a little over two months ago. There were some other threads about it, but i'm lazy and don't want to dig them up I basically Destroyed my PCL, and have been in PT for it for awhile.
Speaking of things in medicine being expensive because of insurance, I just got fitted for a knee brace, and they run around $400 WITHOUT insurance, and $875 WITH! Explain that one to me?! Just because I have insurance, they are going to charge my insurance company over twice what I would pay out of pocket for the same product?
I guess its a catch-22 here. Medicine is expensive because we have insurance, but insurance is expensive because Medicine is expensive!
The MRI was for my knee, and it was a little over two months ago. There were some other threads about it, but i'm lazy and don't want to dig them up
I basically Destroyed my PCL, and have been in PT for it for awhile. Speaking of things in medicine being expensive because of insurance, I just got fitted for a knee brace, and they run around $400 WITHOUT insurance, and $875 WITH! Explain that one to me?! Just because I have insurance, they are going to charge my insurance company over twice what I would pay out of pocket for the same product?
It's Corporate America...I wonder how much it would cost in Australia or Canada...BigMike said:
i think basically what they do is inflate the price for insurance, and then insurance says they will pay a lower price.....which happens to be what the company charges.....so they make the money and the insurance comany feels happy cause they didint pay the whole amount. i could be completely off base...but yeah
medicine is so expensive because drug reps spend thousands of dollars a month catering to hospitals and dr.s offices so their drugs are used.
Hahaha... That was beautiful. Well played.valve bouncer said:Is that a test they do to see if you have any chocolate wafers on your person?
having worked in the this field before. I can tell you the high cost is mainly to Pay for the Huge amount of R&D that goes into developing the technolgy or drug.laura said:
the average drug take 25 years to go from the first Idea till it gets to market , and for every drug that get to market there are 10 others that have failed along the way.
laura said:
Getting your info from Michale Moore?
N8 said:
You mean he's not a reliable source
while this marketing is a non-negligible cost for sure (speaking of which, where are MY free lunches?laura said:
<-- UW pretty much bans the drug company reps), the majority of the cost is in the huge clinical trials needed to get FDA approval.Well they said nagative, so I guess I chocolate wafer free, I don't know if its good or bad. I like wafers!valve bouncer said:Is that a test they do to see if you have any chocolate wafers on your person?