Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25

Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by sokoloff on Friday March 08, 2024 @01:32PM (#39644291)

> At no point did the ER staff ever talk to me.

How did the determination that you needed urology, "oops, no urology available", and ambulance transport get arranged? It seems like some level of triage, routing, unable, re-routing had to have happened, right?

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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by Someone1234 on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:13PM (#39644939)

I think you misunderstood their story. They [rightfully] got charged for the ER at Hospital #1, but were mistakenly charged for the ER a second time at Hospital #2.

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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by sokoloff on Friday March 08, 2024 @03:03PM (#39645670)

Indeed I did. It now says "second hospital" in the last paragraph. I can't know whether I mis-read or if it was edited to clarify, but I definitely did misunderstand the story.

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Re:Doctor Replied to Your Email. That'll Cost $25 by FireBeyond on Friday March 08, 2024 @03:06PM (#39645711)

Present with abdominal pain, admitted, CT imaging, pain management. Imaging read, kidney stone diagnosis confirmed (and of such a size that it needed immediate management). No urology available at hospital one, and because of narcotics on-board, transferred to nearby hospital via ambulance that did have a urologist available, so I could go straight to theater.

But yes, hospital two tried to charge me for an ER visit, as well as the surgical billing (which of course was reasonable).

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