Remember Marty’s stitches?<\/p>\n
Price for walking in the Emergency room door on a Sunday night: $292 (billed by Crawford Long)<\/p>\n
Price for a nurse looking at his hand and saying, “It needs stitches.”: $226 (billed by Emory)<\/p>\n
Price for a nurse’s bad stitching job: $444 (billed by Emory)<\/p>\n
Total time spent in the Emergency Room waiting to be seen? From 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.<\/p>\n
Total time seen? 20 minutes (the nurse took a while stitching Marty’s hand as she kept pulling the stitches through the skin and having to start over). That’s roughly $48 a minute. And roughly $90 a stitch. Or, really, that’s $40 a stitch if the cost of the stitching alone was $444.<\/p>\n
Crawford Long also tried to charge us an extra $90 for having the stitches removed, when we’d been told to return there for their removal as that cost was included. Took two phone calls to straighten that out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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