I would guess a lot of you have this problem. I have been doing shots for 3 years now and am 69 years old. I have the wet kind. For the heck of it I asked for a break down of cost for this visit every 10 weeks. Before I tell you the cost I am very greatful it is holding my eye sight and not getting worse. I also get the more expensive Eylea drug --2mg in each eye. The nurses prep me about 10 minutes and Dr does injection, See him about 1 minute. He likes to do about 35 injections a day. My bill for the injections is -----10,300.00 every 10 weeks. I can not believe it. Between medicare and my supplemental insurance it cost me nothing but still. Medicare and my supplement insurance pay about 4600.00 of the 10,300.00 bill. Hospital says OK.I still cannot believe what gets billed. Thoughts
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Hobo,NC
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I believe my uncle said it was 3K a eye SHOCK...
My thoughts until you can get to 65 and get Medicare you are a open target for them to go after all they can get from ya... That's their reward for playing along and accepting what medicare pays...
I have been self insured for 41 years and cannot Waite to get on medicare if for nuttin else to have some protection from the beast...
Ivan in Mich
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4 years ago I missed the step on my tractor while it was on the ice. I fell and slide under it. Shook everything off and went about what I was doing. Next morning while eating breakfast I bit down on something and then spider web started across my left eye. Within an hour all I could see out of it was movement. Wife called the eye DR that I go to for diabetes and they said to get in as fast as possible. They did all kinds of tests and ended up giving me 4 shots in that eye. I later found out each shot was 2500.00. They had me sign up for a program that the company has and all it cost me was 5.00. I am now signed up so if I ever need it my only cost is 5.00. Within a week I had most of my sight back and a moth later it was back to 85% of what it had been. The fall broke a blood vessel in my eye and the bit opened it up is what the dr said
Russ from MN
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- Bemidji MN
I had one little shot once to stimulate my bone marrow, $14,800! Mayo clinic, Phoenix.
It would be interesting to know the REAL costs behind the $10,300 shots.
In February 2018 due to a complication of surgery followed by a misdiagnosis a family member got to take an airplane ride of some 300 miles. He was "ambulatory" and required no special life support on the trip.
Bill was a nice round $80,000.
9 months later BC/BS has paid NOTHING, and they are now going after him.
I don't believe in govt. over regulation, but something needs to be done with outfits that can charge like this, and insurance companies that are not required to pay you medical bills while you are paying them to do so.
showcrop
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Like pretty much all other health problems the liklihood of the onset of macular degeneration can be avoided by healthful eating and not smoking. My wife and I both quit smoking over 40 years ago and we have both lost significant weight over the last three to four years. My wife has been reading a lot about diet and has been preparing more healthy meals. Living a longer life is great, living an active meaningful longer life is even a lot better. Being on the fire department rescue, I regularly get to see consequences of poor life choices when people age quickly and see serious decline of their health and thus lifestyle in their 60s.
My mother was a professor at the Colorado School of Nursing for twenty five
years. She was the head of nutrition. Member of the American Dietetic Assoc. and
American Heart Assoc. The list goes on but I can't remember all her credentials.
She ate proper all her life, still does at 96 years old! Never smoked a day in
her life yet she has macular degeneration.
years. She was the head of nutrition. Member of the American Dietetic Assoc. and
American Heart Assoc. The list goes on but I can't remember all her credentials.
She ate proper all her life, still does at 96 years old! Never smoked a day in
her life yet she has macular degeneration.
Tony in SD
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I can tell you MD has little to do with healthy life style and more to do with heritage.
I just had both cataracts removed at 79 years old. Have not got the print out yet to see what charges versus payment is. I do have to pay a small fee each time I see the eye Dr. and the balance then s forwarded. Now have to have new glasses, not much help from Med. & ins. co. on those, but every little bit helps on jacked up prices.
Hoenes
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Billed cost to actual cost is all "smoke and mirrors." Everyone knows the shots were only worth 4600 at best. So do the providers. They can write off the difference as a loss. No doctors offices or hospitals pay any taxes because of this hoax. Middle class picks up the slack in over taxation!
Hobo,NC
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- Sanford, NC
Hoenes that's not the way it works... Like any businesses they write off their cost of doing businesses anything they collect over their cost of doing business is a profit... Profit is what they pay taxes on after they deduct what the IRS considers a deduction.
What you think its worth is not a deduction...
1948CaseVAI
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Correct! We could also force the medicine companies to forego their research programs and stop coming up with solutions to serious medical problems. No one is forcing anyone to get treatment.
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