'My funeral would have been cheaper,' Jeanette Parker, 44, said.
A Florida woman, 44, wound up with a medical bill of nearly $50,000 after pulling over to help a stray kitten by a road near the Everglades National Park.
Parker was shocked when she received a bill of $48,512 for her treatment, which included an injection of rabies immune globulin that helps protect the body from the potentially fatal disease before the vaccine gets to work. “I have never heard anything that high for immune globulin,” Charles Rupprecht, an independent biomedical consultant and World Health Organization technical adviser on rabies, told Kaiser. “How is that possible?”
The hospital later reduced its price to $1,650 per 2 ml—a move that took place before the hospital was required to share its charge list online in January, Kaiser noted.
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