Had quite the night out in NYC this week. Woke up in the hospital the next morning. I don't recall anything but based on my friends recollection, they got me back to the hotel at which point some stuff went down. Hotel people were anal and refused to let me go sleep it off and rather called for an ambulance.

Basically, I got an ambulance ride and a bed to sleep in with the standard vitals check every few hours. Can't remember any tests being run and I wasn't hooked up to anything that morning.

Hailing a cab back to my hotel shirtless was quite the sight. I'm pretty sure I won't stay at that hottel this week. Having never spent time in the ER, what kind of bill am I looking at?

4/21/2012 12:02:15 PM

$743 without tests

$3400 with tests

4/21/2012 12:04:21 PM

Sounds like a fucking epic night

4/21/2012 12:09:18 PM

Is this kid like the boring version of Amsterdam?

[Edited on April 21, 2012 at 12:11 PM. Reason : f]

4/21/2012 12:10:46 PM

Oh shit, i didn't see it was new york. I thought you were in NC.

Expect twice what I quoted.

4/21/2012 12:13:56 PM

4-5K

4/21/2012 12:15:43 PM

just sue the hotel, duh.

4/21/2012 12:17:09 PM

classic

4/21/2012 12:38:50 PM

settledown it was just a ConfessIT

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on April 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM. Reason : ]

4/21/2012 12:41:04 PM

Depends on your insurance... or lack there of...

4/21/2012 12:42:33 PM

another ClassicMixup?

4/21/2012 12:58:11 PM

That is an interesting point...

If you refused the amber lamps ride, that's kind of like kidnapping
And if you were kept in the hospital against your will, that's kind of like false imprisonment!!

Seriously, it's kind of fucked up if you indeed didn't call for an ambulance and ask to stay in the hospital. That's...kind of...like...someone else signing you up for medical treatment against your will.

4/21/2012 1:02:16 PM

I too, have seen the hangover, and I too, can take the basis of the story and tweak it into something halfway interesting for TWWers to buy into...

4/21/2012 1:05:58 PM

quit being a dumbass and stuff like this wouldn't happen

4/21/2012 1:06:58 PM

^^^I never agreed to anything

^^Ok, pal.

^

4/21/2012 1:23:47 PM

Send the bill to the hotel.

4/21/2012 1:33:49 PM

4/21/2012 1:55:52 PM

you should have refused transport.

4/21/2012 2:01:43 PM

someone got put in a sleeper hold

4/21/2012 2:02:29 PM

hopefully you were too drunk to provide your correct contact information and your id was lost.

I just got finished paying off an alcohol poisoning from like 2006 a few weeks ago...and I had insurance.

4/21/2012 2:53:12 PM

without health insurance in cost me like 1200 just to walk into the ER for observation after having a reaction to medication.

4/21/2012 2:59:26 PM

Get a fake Canadian I.d.
tell them you have free healthcare.

4/21/2012 3:22:14 PM

Quote :

"you refused the amber lamps ride, that's kind of like kidnapping"

The second he was obviously drunk, his ability to make a legal decision disappeared.

They had every right to put him off to the hospital if the hotel feared for the safety or security of one of their guests.

4/21/2012 3:58:25 PM

^if that's true, then anyone who has had anything to drink and makes the decision to drive shouldn't be held responsible.

4/21/2012 3:59:39 PM

yeah I hate that logic

impaired people do not have the ability to consent to sex or deny medical care, but they are completely responsible for any crime committed while impaired.

cant have it both ways.

4/21/2012 5:39:49 PM

^ this

4/21/2012 5:42:25 PM

Quote :

"They had every right to put him off to the hospital if the hotel feared for the safety or security of one of their guests."

So if they fear for the security of their guests they have the right to call the amber lamps to take care of the situation. Ok.

4/21/2012 5:44:10 PM

You should have started throwing wild punches, it would have been a lot cheaper to go to jail.

4/21/2012 5:44:45 PM

its the bartenders fault

4/21/2012 5:46:19 PM

Quote :

"If you refused the amber lamps ride, that's kind of like kidnapping"

not if you're intoxicated.

You forfeit your ability to make rationale decisions when you're drunk. If they called the ambulance and EMS thought you were too drunk to sleep it off they could have had police detain you in order to take you to the hospital. It's not kidnapping

Quote :

"^if that's true, then anyone who has had anything to drink and makes the decision to drive shouldn't be held responsible. "

and that's retarded. If you plan on drinking and you make the decision to not have a ride ready for yourself, you made the decision to drive while drunk sober.

that's pretty fucking stupid rationale.

4/21/2012 5:50:03 PM

Quote :

"You forfeit your ability to make rationale decisions when you're drunk."

"I didn't rape her officer, i was drunk at the time"

4/21/2012 5:51:27 PM

5 lafta bucks to the closest guess

mine is $2,376 but i feel that is conservative for NY

4/21/2012 5:52:12 PM

~3,500

4/21/2012 5:52:55 PM

Quote :

"some stuff went down"

do tell. inquiring minds want to know.

also why couldn't your friends get you away from the anal hotel people prevent the hospital trip?

4/21/2012 5:53:49 PM

as long as you are not convulsing and shit and still breathing normally you do not have alcohol poisoning

4/21/2012 5:59:37 PM

^ no

4/21/2012 6:01:42 PM

when they took me in i had just hurled and probably would have been fine, after all those thousand dollars the only thing they gave me was a hydration drip to re hydrate, didn't even get any pain pills for the hangover

4/21/2012 6:18:56 PM

silliness...


the use of "like" is lost on you people

[Edited on April 21, 2012 at 6:28 PM. Reason : f]

4/21/2012 6:19:55 PM

Let's see, $1000 for the ambulance ride, and a hotel room in new york city is expensive as shit (~$300) so we'll say getting checked on every hour for twelve hours is twelve times the cost. I will go with $4600, Bob.

4/21/2012 6:20:57 PM

And the results are in...

4 block ride in the amboolamps - $870
ER visit - no charge

Thanks Dr. Awesomeman!

5/2/2012 8:10:17 PM

You must have baller insurance.

5/2/2012 8:17:37 PM

Quote :

"ER visit - no charge "

bahaha.


it takes 60 days to get a bill from the hospital. Expect $3000.

5/2/2012 8:21:34 PM

This happened to someone I know, and it was free. But they were in a country with socialized healthcare at the time.

5/2/2012 8:21:47 PM

^^ good point. And it'll come as multiple bills most likely.

5/2/2012 8:31:16 PM

Haha, yea - expect a separate bill from the hospital, the doctor, and more.

5/2/2012 8:40:47 PM

Yeahhhhhhh...those will trickle in at their own leisure. Had a doppler after giving birth which was in July. Got my radiologist bill in DECEMBER.

5/2/2012 8:43:14 PM

Quote :

"just sue the hotel, duh."

haha

5/2/2012 8:44:36 PM

all you have to do is pay a dollar a month or something and they can't do shit. they'll pass the rest of the cost on to those of us who are responsible.

5/2/2012 8:44:44 PM

Quote :

"The second he was obviously drunk, his ability to make a legal decision disappeared. "

not when i was an EMT ... we had plenty of drunk of people involved in DWI crashes that refused transport

5/2/2012 8:53:38 PM

Quote :

"kind of bill am I looking at?"

I bid $1 Bob.

5/2/2012 8:55:11 PM