So I got the revised version of the hospital bill from my son's surgery, yesterday. I got it, that is; I have no idea how long it was sitting un-opened at my ex's house, but never mind that. It was the revised version, missing all the items that my health insurance negotiated out of existence based on obscure contract terms.
The single largest line item was 20 minutes of operating room time at $1,907. Really? It's not even that I object to the idea that an OR, with all the equipment amortized over some number of years, costs $6,000 per hour to use. It's a lot, but then an X-Ray machine for a couple million is a lot, too. But $5,721 per hour? Somehow that offends my delicate sensibilities. They couldn't have rounded up to $5,750 per hour?
The line item which actually seriously annoys me, though, is "Tissues - $0.83". Are you serious? Are you dead freaking serious? You can't include tissues in the recovery room hourly cost? You have to charge us like 20 cents per tissue for the patient?
Some days it's hard to dredge up faith in humanity out of the depths of illogic.
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