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Well, that's the amount you paid. Some fraction of the insurance premiums which you and your employer paid also went to the hospital for that IV. I wonder how
by LeifCarrotson 9y ago
Well, that's the amount you paid. Some fraction of the insurance premiums which you and your employer paid also went to the hospital for that IV.
I wonder how much. Obviously not $2000, that's absurd. But maybe $200. Or $2. Or maybe the insurance company gets paid $20 by the hospital so they get to make $180 off of you for the IV.
- Slansitartop 9y agoI'm on an HSA. The hospital would have gotten nothing from the insurer, and I would have had to pay the whole bill, if I hadn't hit my deductible. If I'd just been to the ER and not been admitted, I would have probably had to pay for it all. I have it on good authority that saline IV bags are dirt cheap. The hospital used a machine to control the delivery rate, but that cost should have been amortized over hundreds or thousands of patients. The nursing labor involved was negligible, not more than a half-hour for the whole stay.