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Originally Posted by PSM
The cost for 2 1/2 hours in the hospital and 45 minutes in surgery to repair an inguinal hernia was one 2017 CORVETTE STINGRAY RWD Coupe 1LT: 56,445. Oh joy! 
Pat |
No it's not.
That's what the CHARGES are, that's not the COST.
There are serious problems with the finance side of modern American health care, and one of them is the fact that consumers (patients) aren't told the costs (or actually, the charges) up front, and billing is notoriously random and unreliable.
Where did you get that number from? Is it part of your insurance paperwork? If so, don't worry about it, it reflects the hospital trying to stiff the insurance company to make up for all the times the insurance company stiffed the hospital. Those charges bear scant resemblance to actual costs.
Is this from a bill YOU got sent for a self-pay inguinal hernia repair? If so, that charge is out of line and easily fightable.
The actual COST of the hernia repair is around $5K:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26874507
So instead of a Corvette Stingray it's more like a solid used Ford Escort.