Showing posts with label hospital costs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospital costs. Show all posts

Monday, April 16, 2018

How much it cost to cut off my leg

In case you're wondering how much things I had done in February of this year (2018) cost, I got a breakdown from my insurance company. My insurance is decent (thank you, Obamacare!) so I've owed only a few thousand dollars. I know you're saying "Only?!" but my parents left me some money when they died in 2011, so I can manage it. It's in ascending order and just the highest ones.
  • Operating Room Service (This means cutting off my right leg at the hip and stitching up what's left. My doctor's house has a swimming pool and a tennis court. Not kidding. I like the guy, though.): $40,866
  • Intensive Care (really, it was a sort of half-intensive care room for a few days until I got moved into a normal room): $17,964
  • Supplies (Oh, come on, this much? What am I, going to the moon?): $6,740
  • Pharmacy service (This is why you hear about $200 aspirins and things like that.): $5,479
  • Anesthesia service (You're going to cut off my what? No! No! So ... sleepy ... no ... don't. Dave ... stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave.): $5,130
  • Semi-private room (Actually, it was a private room, but I'm not going to call and tell them that.): $4,604
  • Recovery room (Is he dead? No? Slap his face and see if comes to so we can get him the hell out of here.): $3,913
  • Physical medicine (I have no idea what this means. They also billed me $614 for Occupational Therapy, so it can't be that, can it?): $1,688
  • Laboratory service (Looks like blood all right.): $1,319
Total: $87,703