Comments on: 6,000 dollars a minute for your deceased son in the UC Davis Trauma Center http://gruntdoc.com/2009/11/6000-dollars-a-minute-for-your-deceased-son-in-the-uc-davis-trauma-center.html Ramblings of an Emergency Physician in Texas Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:40:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt http://gruntdoc.com/2009/11/6000-dollars-a-minute-for-your-deceased-son-in-the-uc-davis-trauma-center.html/comment-page-1#comment-20046 Matt Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:02:44 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/?p=4071#comment-20046 To be fair to the hospital, people die every day, and bills get moved through the system. The people were going to get billed, and the bills were going to make little sense to anyone who doesn't work for an insurer anyway. Everyone who has been to the hospital for anything should know that. The billing people don't know the circumstances behind every bill that comes through, and the physicians generally don't have time to keep up with the billing status of every patient. No need to condemn them too heartily. To be fair to the hospital, people die every day, and bills get moved through the system. The people were going to get billed, and the bills were going to make little sense to anyone who doesn’t work for an insurer anyway. Everyone who has been to the hospital for anything should know that.

The billing people don’t know the circumstances behind every bill that comes through, and the physicians generally don’t have time to keep up with the billing status of every patient. No need to condemn them too heartily.

]]> By: Greg P http://gruntdoc.com/2009/11/6000-dollars-a-minute-for-your-deceased-son-in-the-uc-davis-trauma-center.html/comment-page-1#comment-20037 Greg P Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:12:15 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/?p=4071#comment-20037 We can hope that what comes out is an accounting of how a bill like this gets assembled. 5 minutes isn't time to do any major testing, really only time for some attempt at resuscitation, and apparently not so intense. It's all part of the ugly truth about hospital billing. There may have been a whole host of tests ordered but their results were moot since he had been pronounced dead. Sensible people wouldn't charge for such things, but billing like this isn't sensible. We can hope that what comes out is an accounting of how a bill like this gets assembled.

5 minutes isn’t time to do any major testing, really only time for some attempt at resuscitation, and apparently not so intense.

It’s all part of the ugly truth about hospital billing. There may have been a whole host of tests ordered but their results were moot since he had been pronounced dead. Sensible people wouldn’t charge for such things, but billing like this isn’t sensible.

]]> By: TheNewGuy http://gruntdoc.com/2009/11/6000-dollars-a-minute-for-your-deceased-son-in-the-uc-davis-trauma-center.html/comment-page-1#comment-20032 TheNewGuy Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:39:42 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/?p=4071#comment-20032 Talk about twisting the knife... Eek. Talk about twisting the knife… Eek.

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