My wife had to have hernia surgery, after spending the night in a hospital room in pain, prior to "emergency" surgery. We just received the bill. The grand total billed to our insurance company was almost $77,000! Of course, we can't tell which of the items are totally bogus. Even if I knew some were bogus, the insurance company would likely not care, since years ago, after another hospital visit, I found a bunch of bogus charges, and when I called the insurance company, they didn't care. It's all one big scam! I don't know how much we are going to owe because the summary sent by the insurance company indicated they are still reviewing the submitted charges from the hospital.
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No blood transfusion. They did do a contrast cat scan and billed that at about $10,000! I guess blood would have been $1000/pint.
I don't want any vaxed blood is all.
You can have people you know donate for you. I just did for my dad two weeks ago and it goes only to him if he needs it. Company is called Versiti. Not sure your area but there are ways to get. What you need.
Thanks ill look into it.
If your surgery is planned far enough in advance you can do an autologous donation (give blood yourself to be stored for your own use if you need it).