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babylonsister

(170,964 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 05:50 PM Jul 2018

A baby was treated with a nap and a bottle of formula. His parents received an $18,000 bill.

I imagine bad press made this go away.

A baby was treated with a nap and a bottle of formula. His parents received an $18,000 bill.
An ER patient can be charged thousands of dollars in “trauma fees” — even if they weren’t treated for trauma.
By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News and Sarah Kliff Updated Jul 20, 2018, 11:03am EDT


Update: After this story was published on June 28, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital agreed to waive the $15,666 trauma response fee charged for Park Jeong-whan’s visit to the hospital. In a letter, the hospital’s patient experience manager said the hospital did a clinical review and offered “a sincere apology for any distress the family experienced over this bill.” Further, the hospital manager wrote that the case “offered us an opportunity to review our system and consider changes.”

On the first morning of Jang Yeo-im’s vacation to San Francisco in 2016, her eight-month-old son Park Jeong-whan fell off the bed in the family’s hotel room and hit his head.

There was no blood, but the baby was inconsolable. Jang and her husband worried he might have an injury they couldn’t see, so they called 911, and an ambulance took the family — tourists from South Korea — to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

The doctors at the hospital quickly determined that baby Jeong-whan was fine — just a little bruising on his nose and forehead. He took a short nap in his mother’s arms, drank some infant formula, and was discharged a few hours later with a clean bill of health. The family continued their vacation, and the incident was quickly forgotten.

Two years later, the bill finally arrived at their home: They owed the hospital $18,836 for the 3 hour and 22 minute visit, the bulk of which was for a mysterious fee for $15,666 labeled “trauma activation,” which sometimes is known as “a trauma response fee.”

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https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17506232/emergency-room-bill-fees-health-insurance-baby

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A baby was treated with a nap and a bottle of formula. His parents received an $18,000 bill. (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2018 OP
The remainder of the bill is ridiculous as well. SamKnause Jul 2018 #1
Don't you just love "for profit" healthcare! Ohiogal Jul 2018 #2

SamKnause

(13,043 posts)
1. The remainder of the bill is ridiculous as well.
Fri Jul 20, 2018, 06:02 PM
Jul 2018

$18,836.00
-$15,666.00
=$ 3,170.00

$3,170.00 what a fucking crazy country.

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