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Hospital bill sent for a suspected kidney stone (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No~~body~~ kidney wants to work anymore

I do have government funded insurance so I will pay less than $200. Which I will only be able to afford if I pass Go.

Itemized hospital bill from the emergency room in the US. Listed are various services including IV, medications, and imaging. The costs range from $5 for an antinausea tablet to $500 for a pregnancy test and almost $7000 for a CT scan.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

In Poland if you pay out of pocket in a private clinic an MRI is around 500USD and a CT scan costs around 300USD, so the price floor is something lower than that. This is a country that will have a higher minimum wage than the US from January 2025.