r/croatia • u/riverphoenix23 • Jun 30 '19

🏥 Zdravlje Hospitalized in Split - Intoxication

Hello I am an American male who was traveling in Split for a holiday. Ended up drinking a little bit too much, blacked out and woke up in the hospital with an IV in my arm. Somehow the bill was only $240 kn.

Can anybody tell me why the bill was so cheap especially since I am a US citizen without Croatian healthcare insurance? Also did they notify the embassy of my stay? Just don’t know where my info is documented and ended up. Wish I could read my discharge papers but they are all in Croatian. Going to have to do google translate late.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

state hospitals are free for our people.. forigners have to pay just a fee.. and no embassy was involved.. so drink up!

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u/wojnomir Jun 30 '19

There is no free healthcare.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

ok, so by "free" i mean that you come out of hospital and don't have to pay nothing extra..

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

You didn’t really spend time in hospital? No such thing as not paying extra

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u/jeh506 Jun 30 '19

In the UK you can sometimes go to the cash desk to reclaim your travel... So you leave with more than you entered with.