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stop nitpicking.[sp]
plumbers charge that much, but at least they clean your pipes.
I know....it was my wife.
This is what I'm talking about regarding rate regulation for office visits.
She spent all of 20 minutes at the office.
stop nitpicking.[sp]
plumbers charge that much, but at least they clean your pipes.
Don't know which plumber your using. And I don't know any plumber that charges $510 per hour.
did your wife make an appointment? $$$
did a nurse have to pull her file? $$$
did a nurse or assistant have to hand her a clipboard to sign in? $$$
did your wife study for the test, or did they have to help her pass? $$$
She spent 20 minutes at the doctors office and had a Swine Flu test done. 20 minutes was for the whole procedure...Check in, visit and test.
If your remark about "studying" for the test was a joke...it wasn't an amusing one. But... God Bless you.
i've never had a swine flu test.
sometimes they ask questions:
"how many fingers am i holding up?"
"who is the president?"
"is that an erection?"
is your wife sickly or elderly?
you know swine flu is just the flu right?
ok...since you have no sense of humor.....why do you assume the doctors office charges $170 an hour?
you went off.....half ed, about my plumber, and you don't even know Joe....my plumber.
...no wait times are expensive...
OK. Not so bad after reviewing the bill.
Flu Antigen A test...$23.00
Rapid Strep Test...$27.00
Initial Office Visit Expanded Problem Focused...$93
Flu Antigen B...$22.00
Total...$165.00
Wife verified she had to wait 2 hours at office until tests confirmed.
Was told (by nurse) that if she tested positive for flu, they would have had to do a Swine Flu test that would have cost $500.
What the heck does that mean?
it means....for fun.....they used a speculum.What the heck does that mean?
This stuff gets expensive.OK. Not so bad after reviewing the bill.
Flu Antigen A test...$23.00
Rapid Strep Test...$27.00
Initial Office Visit Expanded Problem Focused...$93
Flu Antigen B...$22.00
Total...$165.00
Wife verified she had to wait 2 hours at office until tests confirmed.
Was told (by nurse) that if she tested positive for flu, they would have had to do a Swine Flu test that would have cost $500.
Just one cost alone, the insurance the doctor pays. As a general prac ioner, it is probably around $120,000 a year. If he works 2400 hours a year, he has to recoup $50 per hour just to pay insurance. Granted, the Doctor maybe only spent a whole 5 minutes with you and your records, but the staff, building, supplies, etc. used all add up.
The $500 seems high for the specific flu test, but maybe not. You see, someone spent hundreds of millions, maybe billions of dollars, making a genetic test getting all the markers and separation right. Anyone you uses this test pays part of that development cost.
It means someone panicked over the possibility of it being swine flue, so they spent more time ruling it out.What the heck does that mean?
Like Gardisil, swine flu shots are BigPharma scam.
anybody have any studies that these shots work against this flu?
Anybody have any long-term studies about secondary effects of these shots?
They don't have enough vaccine, so they're adding filler (and it ain't Hamburger Helper), which is another mysterious crap injected into your body.
I read where these shots, if they work at all, mean that you shave 1 day off your flu, NOT prevent your flu.
I wouldn't say "panicked". It was requested that all who work there got tested since 2 children from where she works tested positive for swine flu last week.
She was ill during the weekend with flu like symptoms.
So there was a scheduling rush, right? Over that possibility?
Not sure. Could have been.
In retrospect...I guess it's not as expensive as I once thought given the cir stances and situation.
But in retrospect as well...if 20 million people had to visit an emergency clinic facility just because of a possible outbreak.... and didn't have the financial resources to pay...that would be $3,300,000,000...(that's trillions)...needed to be compensated by tax payer money for just this single threat.
It's mind boggling.
It means they have a category for office visits that are focused on a specific problem. That charge is not based on Swine Flu.
I would assume that the $500 cost of testing if it was genetically the swine flue would include a carrier to take the sample to the lab and back for a rush order.
Whats the point of the tests and "knowing" exactly what to call it...they are all virus's so the treatment is exactly the same...rest, get plenty of fluids, stay at home so you don't contaminate others...
93 bucks for someone to concentrate on doing their job. Seems fair.
It's part of the reason insurance costs keep rising. People use what they don't pay for directly more readily.
SpurNation, you pay for this yourself, or a co-pay? Would it have made a difference in paying to know she had any specific flue if your out of pocket cost was different?
Out of pocket.
We don't have insurance. As a small business owner...the premiums for my small company adversely conflict with the necessities of life.
Man...you got screwed.
I'm serious...my doctor would have told me I had the viral crud and asked me if I really wanted to waste time and money trying to figure out exactly what it was...$70 office visit and I'm out the door.
On second thought...that may be what he would have done before...with all the swine flu hysteria doctors may be required to do the tests and report the results to the CDC.
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