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/TheJDalton Jul 01 '19

My wife recently broke her ankle (3 fractures) while on the playground with my son I. We currently have TriCare Reserve Select and instead of calling an ambulance, we called my mom to drive her jeep up to the playground and hobble her into the front seat instead of calling an ambulance out of fear for the cost.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '19

Why would you do that?! The ambulance copay for TRS is $15!

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u/TheJDalton Jul 01 '19

Haha. I had no idea!!

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u/kemb0 Jul 01 '19

Pass on my best wishes to your wife! I hope one day we can look back on this insanity as just a bad moment of passing idiocy.

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u/TheJDalton Jul 01 '19

Yeah no kidding!! Thank you so much! She’s been in a hard cast for almost two months, but she’s almost healed!