Hospital agrees to cut woman’s $83,046 bill
Anti-venom that sells for $100 in Mexico cost her almost $40,000 a dose in Arizona
http://www.news-leader.com/article/20120907/NEWS07/309070043/Hospital-agrees-to-cut-woman-s-83-046-bill?nclick_check=1
Get this:
Tennessee-based Rare Disease Therapeutics sold the drug to a distributor for $3,500 a dose. The distributor charged hospitals about $3,780 a dose. Pharmacies in Mexico charge about $100 a dose.
Kinda says it all, eh?
She was in the hospital 3 hours. The ER physician charged her $1302.00. You know he spent about 15, possibly 30, minutes with her. That’s a pooty goot hourly rate.