Health Care in America
Recently as described in a previous blog I had to go to the hospital for a kidney stone. I was pretty sure what it was but the attack came at 4 am and the ER was the only option. In retrospect I could have stayed home and just risked not knowing the cause. It might have turned out okay or I might have died. Funny thing is, next time, maybe I will take the chance. Everyone in America knows the realities of health care in this country. The maze of paperwork and policy details and fine print. Even if you have insurance there is no guarantee it will pay for anything. Since I just went through a real world example of this I thought I would share my billing experience with Lexington Medical in beautiful South Carolina. Two days after the visit they sent me a survey. I guess they wanted to make sure I got it in before the bills started to arrive. So, this is my recent experience with going to the ER for two hours with my kidney stone. They did one CT scan and gave me two shot