Thread: Healthcare

Originally Posted by thumpcbd

Yea. Horribly unfair that 2 highly skilled individuals are available and open for you to randomly drop by in the middle of the night, then want to be compensated for their time.

You do realize thats 1600 dollars an hour right.... (not including what insurance paid)

Let's assume that 800 was the full amount paid.
Lets also assume that both the NP and MD are paid at the average payscale for a Texas hospital
ER NP = 79000 annually
ER MD = 104000 anually

Adding both their hourly wages together comes out to 87 dollars. Divide that by two since he spent 30 minutes in the ER (im not even taking into account the time actually spent with the patient) and you come out to a real compensation to the NP and MD for time spent with patient...

Total compensation $43.50

Originally Posted by thumpcbd

I don't know where you pulled your numbers, however, they are exceptionally low. That said you aren't including the cost of the facility, available equipment, needed support staff (janitor, check in/out desk person, various back office folks to handle paperwork, lab personel, ect.)

The amount you pay doesn't go just to the Doctors and Nurse you see. Way to over simply the situation.

Of course I'm oversimplifying it. You oversimplified by saying that it was cool to pay that much because the two people that helped you were the ones who needed to be compensated.
Even still, with an average compensation for time of work performed that leaves an estimated 757 dollars left over to pay those additional costs. If we are working on a 30 minute timeline, 757 is MORE than enough to pay those costs.

As far as the numbers, they are accurate based on payscale.com for Texas salary averages.

ER's are incredibly overpriced. There are a multitude of reasons for it but the main thing is that hospitals are for profit. If they can charge and people will pay, they will. It's just like any other business. One of the big issues is that people DONT pay. If a hospital doesnt get paid, they have to charge more.

The gripe really shouldnt be with the hospital itself, it should be with the people who dont pay their hospital bills. It's all cyclical though, the higher the cost, the less people can pay; the less people can pay, the higher the cost. The whole system is pretty much fucked.

you're right, I shouldn't complain. We should have paid more. $1200 for 5 minutes of work seems more fair. I'll let them know.

Originally Posted by Ash

you're right, I shouldn't complain. We should have paid more. $1200 for 5 minutes of work seems more fair. I'll let them know.

Way to support the economy ash!

I want my HMO back

that's nuts. i don't even wanna think about what my un-insured ass would be paying if i got hurt right now.

Seriously, can you just permaban erniebanks?

I get the whole "don't feed the troll" bit, and yea his trolly-ness gets us to post more(if only to call him a dumbass), but really, if DDM is relying on trolls to survive and up the post counts, shut the site down before it drops down to the next level of crappiness.

Might as well let some pron bots on the forums, at least then we'd get half-intelligent posts.

Originally Posted by -m-

that's nuts. i don't even wanna think about what my un-insured ass would be paying if i got hurt right now.

Almost every doctor's office and ER I've gone to has some sort of "discount" for uninsured patients which begs the question....Why even bother to list stupidly high rates if no one is expected to pay them?

Originally Posted by Nyteshade

Almost every doctor's office and ER I've gone to has some sort of "discount" for uninsured patients which begs the question....Why even bother to list stupidly high rates if no one is expected to pay them?

Doc bills are now going to effect peoples credit or count more against you now. Not sure if it went in effect but its coming.