For a guy that has seen more Hospital Bills than the law allows, I got the most comical and sad one of all today. On the 18th of January I was passing tremendous amounts of blood. My wife took me to Frankfort Hospital at 11am because I started stumbling into walls and such. When I get there I literally collapse into a wheelchair and they take me straight back. My blood pressure was 65/45 and I was in and out of consciousness. There was 3 people sticking needles in me to get an IV started. After 16 attempts they get one started in my neck. They immediately started giving me fluids and then blood because my Hematocrit and Hemoglobin was 1/3 what it should be. I was given 6 units over the next 24 hours and they had to transfer me to a bigger facility to find out where I was bleeding internally. UK was on Divert and I was 3rd on the list so they sent me to U of L into there Critical Care Unit. I was there from Jan 19 at 4pm to Jan 21 at 10am, 42 hours total. While there I had

1 Endoscopy
2 units of blood
3 bags of saline
3 bags of protonix
1 chest X ray

Total Cost before insurance billed was $23,227.52

2 units of blood was $2,901.12
Pharmacy $5,965.28
Lab $4,709.38
Room Charge $4,814.00
Plus other stuff

Unbelievable, nothing like meeting your $5,000 hospitalization deductible the third week of January. These charges are outrageous