re: #404 Naso Tang

Well, to be fair, it is salt water, guaranteed to be sterile, with any number of special conditions on it, not to mention market volume issues, transportation, shelf life, and the staff to monitor and store and administer it. You didn’t pay for the salt water, just everything that goes with it.

What is of more interest to me is why someone who walks in with cash (or no cash) will likely be billed twice what an insurance company is billed.

Nope. That was the individual charge for the bags of saline.

I also paid for the room, 3 disposable needles, rubber gloves (3 bucks a pair!), an ER fee…

Hospital bills are insane if you actually read them.