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My wife had been battling undiagnosed nausea for almost two years. Literally vomiting several times a day for the last year. To the point that I thought she would die because her weight had gotten so low. This doctor, that doctor, go to the hospital run a test, then to back to this doctor, then to that doctor. The healthcare delivery system is typically such a keystone cops exercise, and is obscenely expensive simultaneous.
Then she went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. Flew to Minneapolis, got off the plane, and boarded the "Rochester shuttle" for a nominal charge. Off to Rochester where she stayed in a hotel connected to Mayo.
Her appointment was at 8am on Monday. Guess what? She was there, and the doctor was actually ready to see her right then - actually running on schedule. He told her "We will likely have you diagnosed and on your way home one week from today, but here is the menu of things we will be doing with you this week." He spent over an hour with her.
That week, Mayo did every imaginable test, with no hour of the week left for downtime. On the next Monday, they gave her a diagnosis and sent her on her way back to Texas.
About 30 days later, we received our bill from Mayo: $7700. I thought "it has to be missing a digit", so I called and asked them had there been an error or if this was just part of the bill?" They replied "No, we try to keep things very transparent and affordable as many of our patients are paying with cash."
I wrote them a check and that was the end of it. Meanwhile, my wife is well.
If you're sick, I mean really sick, don't screw around with the three stooges in your home town who are doing to do nothing for you except trying to hose you and your insurance company.
Buy you a $400 round trip flight to Minneapolis and do things the Mayo way.
That is the way free enterprise is supposed to work.
Then she went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. Flew to Minneapolis, got off the plane, and boarded the "Rochester shuttle" for a nominal charge. Off to Rochester where she stayed in a hotel connected to Mayo.
Her appointment was at 8am on Monday. Guess what? She was there, and the doctor was actually ready to see her right then - actually running on schedule. He told her "We will likely have you diagnosed and on your way home one week from today, but here is the menu of things we will be doing with you this week." He spent over an hour with her.
That week, Mayo did every imaginable test, with no hour of the week left for downtime. On the next Monday, they gave her a diagnosis and sent her on her way back to Texas.
About 30 days later, we received our bill from Mayo: $7700. I thought "it has to be missing a digit", so I called and asked them had there been an error or if this was just part of the bill?" They replied "No, we try to keep things very transparent and affordable as many of our patients are paying with cash."
I wrote them a check and that was the end of it. Meanwhile, my wife is well.
If you're sick, I mean really sick, don't screw around with the three stooges in your home town who are doing to do nothing for you except trying to hose you and your insurance company.
Buy you a $400 round trip flight to Minneapolis and do things the Mayo way.
That is the way free enterprise is supposed to work.
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