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(KVIA.com) Amusing Man spends a week in the hospital for pneumonia, a few weeks later gets $44 million bill, promptly returns to same hospital after heart attack   (kvia.com) divider line 19
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Evil Kirk vs Bad Ash
2012-01-18 05:32:12 PM
She was a hell of a nurse.
 
Naeva [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 05:35:32 PM
Isn't this a repeat?
 
iheartscotch
2012-01-18 05:38:18 PM
Non-story; hospital says it was an error.

/ can we get on with our lives now?
 
LarryDan43
2012-01-18 05:43:31 PM
iheartscotch: Non-story; hospital says it was an error.

/ can we get on with our lives now?

It should have been 45 million. Thanks fartbamacare.
 
loonatic112358
2012-01-18 05:46:08 PM
he got the good drugs during his visit
 
AaronB1138
2012-01-18 05:47:48 PM
It's amazing how much blaming technological mistakes have completely eliminated mail fraud and similar prosecution of corporations.
 
oren0
2012-01-18 05:48:58 PM
According to the publication, Rodriguez was one of several hundred patients who received erroneous medical bills from the hospital after a computer error put invoice numbers in the area of the bill where invoice amounts should go.

Sure, a computer error. The program had a bug that caused it to do this. I'm sure it couldn't have been a moronic user or anything.

/PEBKAC
 
snocone [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 05:53:31 PM
Anybody know what an intraoperative pulmonary embolism that the hospital denied, but we found in the records on a recent review is worth?
O2 dependant victim now.
Docs still tell her it is COPD from long gone hx of smoking?
 
GungFu
2012-01-18 05:59:02 PM
Meh.

Story would be better that he died of shock and family of man sues hopsital for $100 million.
 
GungFu
2012-01-18 05:59:47 PM
GungFu: Meh.

Story would be better that he died of shock and family of man sues hopsital for $100 million.


I shouldn't type so fast.
 
Mentalenemasquad
2012-01-18 06:04:57 PM
ID10T error...
 
whenIsayGO
2012-01-18 06:07:12 PM
"almost suffered an asthma attack"?

I think that's called breathing.
 
Mikey1969 [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 06:15:33 PM
iheartscotch: Non-story; hospital says it was an error.

/ can we get on with our lives now?

Well, OBVIOUSLY it was an error, you needed the story to ell you that? Jesus, you need to click on the link and THEN on the comments to figure that out? The rest of us were a little curious where the error came from, so we read the story, but we KNEW that it was a hospital error going in... Do you need someone to tell you the truth about unicorns, leprechauns and Santa, also? I can find an article somewhere on the internet, if that's how you need to process data...
 
iheartscotch
2012-01-18 06:17:51 PM
LarryDan43: iheartscotch: Non-story; hospital says it was an error.

/ can we get on with our lives now?

It should have been 45 million. Thanks fartbamacare.

Poor fartbama; he's like verner in the movie the great escape. No matter what he does; it's whoosh, off to the Russian front with him.
 
iheartscotch
2012-01-18 06:22:08 PM
Mikey1969: iheartscotch: Non-story; hospital says it was an error.

/ can we get on with our lives now?

Well, OBVIOUSLY it was an error, you needed the story to ell you that? Jesus, you need to click on the link and THEN on the comments to figure that out? The rest of us were a little curious where the error came from, so we read the story, but we KNEW that it was a hospital error going in... Do you need someone to tell you the truth about unicorns, leprechauns and Santa, also? I can find an article somewhere on the internet, if that's how you need to process data...

Hold on, take a breath, step away from the keyboard. Maybe you should take a break for 5 minutes; you sound very angry.

/ how about a nice game of chess?
// the Internet, serious business
 
Mikey1969 [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 06:24:02 PM
"But because Romney, whose fortune has been estimated at $250 million, has never released his personal tax returns, the full extent of his giving has never been public."

Lucky fr him, he wasn't a big vocal part of the Birther movement...
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 07:14:41 PM
Name's Rodriguez? He's uninsured? Bill him for a gagillion dollars and then write it all off as a loss for tax purposes.

/profit
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 07:17:05 PM
snocone: Anybody know what an intraoperative pulmonary embolism that the hospital denied, but we found in the records on a recent review is worth?
O2 dependant victim now.
Docs still tell her it is COPD from long gone hx of smoking?

That depends entirely on your lawyer, the venue, and how many appeals you have to go through.
 
brianbankerus
2012-01-18 09:24:13 PM
Marcus Aurelius: Name's Rodriguez? He's uninsured? Bill him for a gagillion dollars and then write it all off as a loss for tax purposes.

/profit

Every Rodriguez I've known was wealthy.

/Alex
 
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