They've covered it all along, now they want what they paid to go against what they'd pay out to me in cash.
I've never really paid a bill - though I did cover my drugs on my first stop at the pharmacy on the way home from the hospital. Well, someone else paid it with my debit card. That's the only bill I've paid. The next time I had drugs picked up, we gave them the insurance information and that was the end of that.
So, I technically have paid a bill. It was like $30 with the insurance I carry.
That's it... They've paid everything else. For some reason, this even has covered my sleep meds. I was prescribed them while in the hospital all broken and bruised. I'd been on them before but not for quite a while. Somehow, they have even covered those.
My drugs are pretty expensive. They're like $1500 a month, but the insurance company isn't paying that much - they've surely got deals with the manufacturers.
Oh ok, I see. They want to deduct that from the settlement. Those bastards!
Yeah... They total somewhere in the 1.25 to 1.5 region. Flying in a surgeon and having a private ward was pretty expensive. It was $70,000 just to ride in the helicopter. The private ward for two weeks was REALLY expensive. It was just a 4 bed ward used for patients that need discretion, but you're paying for the whole ward. Technically, for about a day there was someone else on my ward but they were quiet and I never actually saw them.
Then, I had dozens of guests - and fed 'em all lobster. I had at least one guest 24/7...
But, yeah... The private ward was absurdly expensive. It was something like 10k/day per room. So, 40k per day. That was like 480k by itself.
Healthcare is way too fucking expensive. Granted, I had a very special stay, it's still absurd. The surgeon we flew in cost six figures. The surgery itself wasn't all that expensive...
I didn't have your atypical example of a hospital stay, but it's still stupidly expensive. It shouldn't cost 70 grand to ride in a fucking helicopter.
At least I think it was 70k... It might have been half that - 35k... Now that I think about it, I think it was half that - 35k or so... I'm probably conflating it with the rescue and ambulance to the first hospital.
Plus, I donated 25k to the local volunteer fire department (which includes rescue) but that's my own expense.
Either way, I want them to cover all that, plus give me my 2.5 - which I lowered from the 3 mil I initially wanted.
If they cover all of that plus the 2.5 it will be more than the 3 Mil. Either way, they can certainly afford it
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