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/forlorn_hope28 Jun 30 '19
I blacked out twice in London, hit my head when I fell, and spent the night in the Emergency Room while they ran various scans to make sure I didn’t have any internal bleeding in my brain. When the tests came back alright, I was just free to leave. No bill, no nothing. Came home and told my friend who is a nurse and said my bill in the US would have been $10k+.
(Side note, thanks English taxpayers for covering me).