Two years ago I injured two fingers and went to TV Hospital ER. They saw me pretty quickly (I was bleeding on the waiting room floor), and gave me three stitches (by a PA) on one finger and I told them not to stitch the other finger, as it didn't look that bad to me, and the pain killer shot in a fingertip is painful in the extreme. They xrayed the fingers, told me there were tiny fractures in both, but there was no treatment required. The bill was over $4,000, which was all out of pocket since I had a high deductible insurance policy at the time. They charged me over $800 for the "fractured" fingertips, over and above the cost of the xray. I paid the bill, but wrote a letter to the hospital complaining about it. I got no satisfaction. But I'll never go back.
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