So the total cost of my surgery just went up by more than a grand. The previous tally was a bit over $32,000, but I just received a bill for the CPM machine and the knee brace. The CPM machine cost $650 and the knee brace came in at $625.00. Oh and there's an extra $80 charge for the pad that goes on the CPM machine. A reasonable person would think the pad was part of the CPM machine, but apparently, there are no reasonable people working at the company that supplied the CPM machine and the brace, just crooks, liars and thieves.
So the total cost of the surgery now comes to more than $34,000.00. Actually, it's probably more than $35,000.00 if you include all the charges for the physical therapy.
By the way, the CPM machine and the knee brace are worthless. They make no difference in the outcome of ACL surgery. I don't know why surgeons continue to recommend them or why health insurance companies continue to pay for them. But my insurance company --which would not pay for the nurse who assisted in the surgery-- had no problem shelling out out over $600 for these contraptions. I wish they would've instead put that money towards beer for me. Or perhaps just donated it to the ASPCA.
But like Steve Miller said, it's easier to Take the Money and Run:
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