Rou

I recently had surgery. Outpatient type deal. No big deal.

But the billing is cracking me up. Fortunately for me, my insurance is covering most of the bill, which allows me to laugh. If it didn't, this wouldn't be funny.

The first bill I get is my anesthesiologist. Before anyone else, his bill is front and center. It's pretty simple. $1200 for his services. Simple.

A few weeks pass and I get my surgeons bill. Another simple bill. $1100 for her services. I'm on board with all of this.

Then I get the hospital bill. And this thing is fucking priceless. it's 15 entries. Not that bad. 1 of them is listed as 'Outpatient Anesthesia'. The other 14 are all 'Hospital Incidentals'. They range from $2.21 to $3,764.00 I mean, seriously... this is just fucking lazy. I mean, I think there should be SOME separation of this bill. A little more clarity. I don't think an aspirin should fall under the same category as the cost of the operating room. $3,761.79 is a pretty wide range for the same cost code, right?

Seriously. How can they expect someone to just blindly pay for shit and assume it's ok? Maybe there are people out there that just pay the bill and make it go away, but I'm really not one of them. I like to make sure they're not billing me for a drug they didn't actually give me.

Maybe I'm just silly that way?