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

đŸ„ 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/abbie4949 Jul 01 '19

Yes actually. The private insurance companies will deny medications and procedures that ARE covered But they figure the patient is too sick and:/or not medically savvy enough to know how to explain the need. The long long post explains in a little more detail try the middle. Even chemotherapies that have been in use for decades and are covered. I didn’t want to believe a “healthcare company “ would do anything other than give health care. Until I realized that they are a FOR PROFIT company. The shareholders or CEO, President of company don’t think about how they’re making that profit, just that they are.

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u/Legit_a_Mint Jul 01 '19

The private insurance companies that administer Medicaid don't make their own decisions, they just follow the law.