Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
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Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#2I encountered a bat many years ago acting erratically inside the house. It had evidently entered in my sleep.
I looked up the cost, and found out the household would be bankrupted by the shots and we would end up homeless. I calculated the danger from homelessness outweighed the risk of rabies. I guess the bet paid off, as we're now well past the 99th percentile of incubation period.
Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#3What happens if you refuse to pay?
Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#4What happens if you refuse to pay?
They give your rabies back.
Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#5What happens if you refuse to pay?
Debt collectors, A lien on their house, etc
Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#6What happens if you refuse to pay?
I'll just leave this here:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/12/21/1144491...
Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#7Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#8I encountered a bat many years ago acting erratically inside the house. It had evidently entered in my sleep. I looked up the cost, and found out the household would be bankrupted by the shots and we would end up homeless. I calculated the danger from homelessness outweighed the risk of rabies. I guess the bet paid off, as we're now well past the 99th percentile of incubation period.
Can you get rabies still, theoretically, from this event?
Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#9I encountered a bat many years ago acting erratically inside the house. It had evidently entered in my sleep. I looked up the cost, and found out the household would be bankrupted by the shots and we would end up homeless. I calculated the danger from homelessness outweighed the risk of rabies. I guess the bet paid off, as we're now well past the 99th percentile of incubation period.
Seems pretty remote chance to get rabies without being bit, but did you read the last paragraph?
"The Aguilars wound up paying $3,546.64 out of pocket. The insurance company told us Wednesday that they "are reaching out to NorthBay Healthcare... to address these excessive charges.""
The shot normally costs ~$600 USD. There is no way the insurance in the end will pay the $54k the hospital tried to get away with.
Re: Bay Area couple shocked by $200K hospital bill for rabies shots
#10so a whole story about a billing mistake, which they could have figured out without involving the news org?