Dude! Your HCI sucks IMO!!!

Research has demonstrated the use of cyanoacrylate in wound closure as being safer and more functional than traditional suturing. The adhesive has demonstrated superior performance in the time required to close a wound, incidence of infection (suture canals through the skin's epidermal, dermal, and subcutaneous fat layers introduce extra routes of contamination), and final cosmetic appearance.[

I use it all the time for cuts. Never had irritation or scarring.

I always thought cyanoacrylate adhesives were originally intended for surgical closures (?)

We've used them for decades on animals, but then we don't check many years alter to see how they're doing

PS - research, not vet. care

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Actually, that is not true:

Anybody willing to review my MRI images? - Corner-Carvers Forums

Thanks for playing though.SmileWavy

I know this for a fact.

You don't remember?

I beat you to that on post #12. And yes I knew it was originally developed for that application. SmileWavy

My hernia cost $13,640.54 to repair. It was out-patient surgery. I was at the hospital about 6 hours.

note to self;
stay out of emergency rooms!

Joe

You're absolutely correct. We pay a levy for Medicare in Australia and in my case that equates to $825.00 per year.

How does that compare to private medical insurance in the USA?

EDIT: I also have private medical insurance which covers Dental, Hospitalization and Ambulance.

825? per year in Australia? Yeah, well that's close enough to free. I pay that in less than 2 months.
I paid 250 for six months in Germany. True, taxes are higher, but not one damn pothole in the whole country...

I think it's about double what I pay per year.

Then you see what they accept from the ins co. I think mine finally figured out to be about 3K total with me paying a $75 co-payment.

You sure you got all the bills? My anesthesiologist's bill was sent about 4 months later. I think mine was for 1500. She got about 300.

Just to be clear, that's your contribution, your employer pays the balance?

I pay ~$300 per month for Medical+Dental, family of four. But that's not what my coverage costs. Employer covers the rest.

When I had to carry a plan on my own it was $1,250 per month.

Basically what I said here:
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.

Very true, and forcing a big kick of the can down the road. Good to hear how others pay medical, mine is paid entirely though the job, no copays, etc, until I retire. Other lessons learned, why not super glue? Really never thought about it!

Just to bring this back to the topic, my guess is somewhere between $1450 and $1700. My wife was down in Houston. While helping to prepare dinner for her daughter, she cut her finger (pretty deep cut with a knife). I believe they went to an hospital emergency room.
She ended needing 4-5 stitches in the finger. Was there about an hour. Final bill was $1,430 or something real close to that. I was so pissed at the cost I couldn't see straight. We ended up paying for it because of deductibles, and the insurance had no emergency provisions. I would be expecting about 400 bucks. We tried to get the bill changed, but no go. In conversations with the hospital they even admitted part of the reason it was so high is to cover the illegals and others that don't pay.

Craig

And the winner is . . .


the first guess in the thread.



Actual was $778, a guess within $28 is remarkable! I have to pay it all, since I have a huge deductible and am not even close to meeting it for the year (thankfully!).

As some of you (tobra, joe, others) pointed out, even though I have to pay 100% of the bill, having insurance probably still helped b/c the charges are based on some kind of "negotiated" or "contract" rate between the Ins. Co. and the hospital.

Hope that is the case but be prepared for multiple bills. My last trip to the ER resulted in a hospital bill and separate bills for physician, labs, and meds. I was there for 4 hours and total costs were nearly $2500. Good luck and hope the boy is healed nicely.

Ha...close behind at $850, and only $72 off! Sorry to hear about paying the bill though, it was fortunate your insurance company could "help out". OBTW, this is the entire bill, not just he ER with the doc submitting another bill later?