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Originally Posted by mykalberta
I am just relaying what my Flaming Liberal Oilers fan uncle told us of his experience in Honolulu from January of this year.
Cortizone and morphone shot for $135 at the clinic in Sheraton hotel on Waikiki beach. He wouldnt shut up about it and my Aunt the nurse kept trying to defend the doctors in Edmonton.
It was quite funny.
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I'm guessing your uncle paid for traveler's insurance.
I had excellent insurance in Iowa, paid partly by the University. I broke my leg playing hockey, and went to the ER. A non-displaced fracture of the tibia, which is a pretty routine injury by ER standards.
A doctor looked at it, ordered an X-ray, said "yup, that's broken." He gave me a walking boot and a prescription for Vicodin and told me not to put weight on it for six weeks.
Total cost: 750 dollars, including the Vicodin. The crazy part? That was
just my co-pay. The amount billed to insurance was over two grand.
There's absolutely no way 135 dollars paid for cortisone injections. 135 dollars doesn't even pay for the hour of his time that the doctor bills out when he sees you for twenty minutes. Your uncle must have had some kind of insurance footing part of the bill.