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Originally Posted by ckissick
Dueller, what you say is all true. That said, do you think a ten-fold cost increase should be sufficient? An order of magnitude is a pretty hefty increase. So your $30 shot would become $300. I'd have no problem with that. But $30 to $1,100 stills seems excessive to me.
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No...it comes back to accesibility. You should be able to avail treatment for a simple tetanus shot somewhere other than the ER. The ER has more important things to respond to than that. Not beating up on you, Charlie...it likely was the only place you could go. Yup...$1100 seems steep.
IIRC the price Medicare fee schedule (only as one benchmark for what is reasonable) for an emrgency tetanus shot is something like $120-150...but I'll defer to Noah930 to confirm.