Fairview Range University Medical Center Mesabi - Emergency Room Bad Experience
Definately a rant here, but deserved. Yes Scott H, Bile gets a permalink.
This summer we went up to visit the Iron Range (my hometown, etc) and Ella, our 2 year old, got bit by something. Huge swell up, ankle was huge, couldn't even fit the shoe on. Walgreens pharmacist was like, you need to get to ER now, that is out of hand.
So, we go to the University Medical Center Mesabi, in Hibbing MN. We get triaged. We sit for.. 3 hours. and still no sign of getting looked at. We leave since by this time it was 1030-11 PM and Ella was about to or going to sleep.
We but some stuff on it and gave her benadryl, and yeah, all worked out fine.
Except, we get a 75 dollar bill. For what? Triage? For them taking our info and taking her temp? And that is after insurance paid 130 dollars. WTF? Really?
What that tells me is that we shouldnt ever go unless our limbs are ripped off or we have a heart attack.
Yeah, I paid the bill, but what the heck do I have insurance for? And my daughter didn't get seen. We paid for nothing. We asked the triage nurse if we should be there or if there is anything we could do .. response? "I can't tell you anything, I can't do anything, you have to wait. So we paid for them not to tell us anything and for us to wait in a waiting room.
Ridiculous.
Maybe it's like this everywhere but still, I feel ripped off and I'm going to say something about it, here it is.
