Don't Break A Limb In San Francisco!

[Razors Edge ★]

...or you might get totally screwed (and not in the gentle RG way):

On April 3, Nina Dang, 24, found herself in a position like so many San Francisco bike riders — on the pavement with a broken arm.

A bystander saw her fall and called an ambulance. She was semi-lucid for that ride, awake but unable to answer basic questions about where she lived. Paramedics took her to the emergency room at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where doctors X-rayed her arm and took a CT scan of her brain and spine. She left with her arm in a splint, on pain medication, and with a recommendation to follow up with an orthopedist.

A few months later, Dang got a bill for $24,074.50. Premera Blue Cross, her health insurer, would only cover $3,830.79 of that — an amount that it thought was fair for the services provided. That left Dang with $20,243.71 to pay, which the hospital threatened to send to collections in mid-December.

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Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG), recently renamed for the Facebook founder after he donated $75 million, is the largest public hospital in San Francisco and the city’s only top-tier trauma center. But it doesn’t participate in the networks of any private health insurers — a surprise patients like Dang learn after assuming their coverage includes a trip to a large public ER.

[sheep_herder ★]

I am waiting for shootingstar's response.

[donkpow]

You can't be turned away from the ER for inability to pay. It's the law. You should know that by now.

[Longjohn ★]

Make payments, $10 a month for a couple hundred years.

[Longjohn ★]

1 hour ago, Razors Edge said:

That left Dang with $20,243.71 to pay, which the hospital threatened to send to collections in mid-December.

 

Let them send it, they can’t do anything.