• PenguinMage@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Didn’t factor in the hospital bill, the doctor bill, the nursing staff bill, the ems bill, the er doc bill, or the overnight fees… and then there’ll still be more and all separate.

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      3 days ago

      The paperwork bill for generating all the paperwork. The admin bill, to review the paperwork. The convenience surcharge, for the cost of generating paperwork.

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        3 days ago

        I’m pretty sure you replying to me has added more to my significant medical bills. Somewhere in this stack I think it has a “didn’t fake an ambulance, +$”

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        2 days ago

        Thankfully no tip line on those bills, but zero consolidation does make it hard to set up payments and know everything is taken care of… if that’s even possible.

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          That’s so scary not knowing whether a debt has been paid off properly or not.

          While I appreciate my Japanese healthcare (I find it a bit better than Canada’s), it’s kinda weird not knowing the ballpark amount I’m going to pay BEFORE seeing the doctor. I get a bill at the end of my visit. They have an itemized list of things they did. Each item is given “points,” and they’re converted into yen at the end. I’m not even sure what each point amounts to how many yen (although, that’s purely on me, the answer is probably a duckduckgo search away). I don’t like the feeling that I might end up with a surprisingly expensive bill.