Your most outrageous billing stories

[Guest guest]

Just curious.

Mine: I remove a lump from a man's shoulder and it turns out

to be metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung. He also has

subcutaneous nodules to face and other portions of back.

I knew it would be bad. I help the guy through his last month

of life with home visits, driving him to pharmacy (didn't

own a car, lived in the woods), chemo (a real disaster),

and basically go way above and beyond. HealthNet bundles

everything into his surgery visit and covers nothing.

Wow.

Pamela

[Guest guest]

Once upon a time, before the creation of ace inhibitors, and in the days one would be sued if beta blockers were used for with CHF, there was a lady whose heart was big--so big it looked as though her thorax needed a addition to the left of course.

I made home visits usually at eleven at night and gave IV Morphine and Lasix and generally stayed with her and her caretaker daughter for about one hour.  I did this at least 5 times.  She had ED and hospital stays for the same symptoms, but I could get her better and she wanted to stay at home when she could.  Her grandson asked her if she was going to get better and she said she would end up in the cemetery if she didn't.  He burst into tears.  Later, when she told me the story I asked if that is indeed where she would be and she said no.  I advised her to correct that with her grandson and I am sure she did.  I generally did not go to funerals, but made an exception in her case as she asked me to be supportive of her family there.  I cried from the church to the cemetery (alone in my car) and held together at the cemetery--even when that grandson asked me if I could be his doctor.  Almost forgot  I got paid 20 dollars for the meds and the home visit.

Carolyn

 

Just curious.

Mine: I remove a lump from a man's shoulder and it turns out

to be metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung. He also has

subcutaneous nodules to face and other portions of back.

I knew it would be bad. I help the guy through his last month

of life with home visits, driving him to pharmacy (didn't

own a car, lived in the woods), chemo (a real disaster),

and basically go way above and beyond. HealthNet bundles

everything into his surgery visit and covers nothing.

Wow.

Pamela