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UconnTim97 10-25-2010 07:47 AM

$1.380

Brando 10-25-2010 08:24 AM

What kind of service plan/warranty do you get?

Jagshund 10-25-2010 08:35 AM

Eh?! I've fixed wounds worse 'an that with a Snickers wrapper and duct tape! Next time, shave the head and butterfly it shut. It'll save you the $2107.56 that this round'll cost ya.

lukeh 10-25-2010 08:40 AM

$1,450.

I was at the ER a few months back. I had a bee sting for the 3rd time in two months. This time my hand started to swell real bad. At the ER the Doc took one minute to say I was having a reaction to the sting and I should go to the pharmacy and get some benadryl. That minute cost me $450.

Rikao4 10-25-2010 09:38 AM

2500.00
figure at least 150 a stitch..
+ some $ cause your special..
simple cut...we trained on this stuff..
after showing we could do pigs feet..
followed by goat-lab..

Rika

Dantilla 10-25-2010 09:58 AM

Not sure about ER costs, but my recent trip to Urgent Care, including X-rays of the broken bone, were less than 200 bucks.

Erakad 10-25-2010 10:27 AM

I'm guessing $850...nice shot! Don't you love how head wounds bleed?

So anyways, if I guess the right amount...do I win something (and please, don't send me the bill)....maybe something like a Porsche??

1990C4S 10-25-2010 10:30 AM

My son had a similar cut a few years ago. After a very long wait in emergency it stopped bleeding.

We went home. Total cost: $5.00 for parking.

Les Paul 10-25-2010 11:24 AM

I had something similar recently. Inside stitches and outside. 2000.

pete3799 10-25-2010 11:31 AM

2750.00 plus your left arm and right leg.

Mark Henry 10-25-2010 11:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1990C4S (Post 5634534)
My son had a similar cut a few years ago. After a very long wait in emergency it stopped bleeding.

We went home. Total cost: $5.00 for parking.

I'm too cheap to pay for parking...5 stitches in my boy's forehead...I made him walk the 5 minutes from the Walmart parking lot.:D
We were out in under an hour. Nurse couldn't hold him down (he was 5 or 6) so I had to do it.

Cost? I had to whip his health card out of my wallet. Zip, nothing, never does cost anything.
I could have got the stitches taken out for free as well, but 1-1/2 hour round trip and the long wait for a non-emergency I just did it myself.

Scuba Steve 10-25-2010 12:02 PM

I'll go one dollar, Bob!

RWebb 10-25-2010 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rikao4 (Post 5634406)
2500.00
figure at least 150 a stitch..
+ some $ cause your special..
simple cut...we trained on this stuff..
after showing we could do pigs feet..
followed by goat-lab..

Rika


you left out cadavers...

but, it IS very expensive to train doctors - even the pre-med part costs more than most undergraduate lab classes.

however, Noah explained the main reasons for the cost above; + the covering the billings for all the poor - it would be tons cheaper to handle their health issues in a non-ER setting

Tobra 10-25-2010 12:16 PM

Staples are a bit tough to take out at home, unless you have the handy, dandy tool.

I have stitched up a lot of friends and relatives, but suturing is a bit of a PITA when the hair gets in the way.

Mark Henry 10-25-2010 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tobra (Post 5634821)
Staples are a bit tough to take out at home, unless you have the handy, dandy tool.

Side cutters

MBAtarga 10-25-2010 01:09 PM

I'm going with $1672

Les Paul 10-25-2010 01:14 PM

I texted that pic to my sil a 4th year. He likes the er stuff and lives in a big city. Plenty of car crashes shootings stab and slash. He said it is really to bad they don't train them on the cost part. He said they do charge a higher bill for uninsured. Not like they'll pay it. He said Medicare is almost pro Bono er.

targa911S 10-25-2010 01:34 PM

$3865.00

Por_sha911 10-25-2010 02:57 PM

Its a trick question:
1) Medicare would have to pay $800.
2) Your Insurance Company would have to pay $950.
3) If you have no insurance, you would have to pay $3000 unless you fight with them (ask me how I know).
4) If you are an illegal alien, you would have to pay $0 because you would give false information and not pay the bill. Who would pay the difference? See #3.

1990C4S 10-25-2010 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slodave (Post 5633400)
Duct tape would have been cheaper.

Won't quite work. But Crazy glue does. ER has UV curing glue, but regular works also.


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