Hi Donna,

Do you mean physicians as well as psychiatrists don't take people serious or just most the psychiatrists that don't take anyone serious?

barbara

hi barbara
I am so sorry that that happened to you.
You did not have any one to help support you.
1,100 is not bad for an overnight stay....my bill was $8,000 for a 3 nite stay in arizona...10 years ago that I am still slowly paying off.
I hear your voice of frustration and no I don't think you should have been admitted.
where are our advocates?????

like I said before my client was locked up for 30 days against her will for talking too fast on the phone.....that was my pdoc!!!!!!!

you have to be very careful what you say...
another example, my 80 year old client made a comment about slicing her throat in frustration over something....
ended up in the psych unit for a week.....
sigh

Hi Bizi,

The $1,100 that I was billed was the part that Medicare did not pay so the total cost was higher.

Your right, I had no support on this because I was ashamed that it happened. I didn't want anyone to know in my 3-D that I even am Bi-polar. I honestly believe it happened because I am Bi-polar and once they found out I was an easy target. I kept it all to myself until recently. I've told my bf that the hospital had done me wrong and some other tidbids of information but scared to tell him the whole story. I guess I tried to just sweep the whole issue under the rug but feel different now. My credit rating was ruined because of the bill being reported to the Credit Bureaus and now they are threatening to get a judgment agaisnt me. I've had enough and want to fight them now.

barbara

WOw!!!
That is crazy.
I am sorry that the system failed you. My health insurance only pays so much per day for psych inpatient....much much less then if I were on a medical floor.
unfair!

Mine too Bizi.

I was doing a search on this subject on Google and this is what came up.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Dear Barbara,
This should not have happened.
I don't even know what to say except I am sorry you had to go through that.

Generally we are taught to trust the folks in hospitals who care for us.

Mari

Thank you Mari.

My link to the Google page has this thread the on the 2nd one down. I thought that was interesting to do a search and see my post.

barbara

Dear Barbara,

A little while ago I heard about a pssch hospital in Texas that over admitted patients and kept them too long.
They had more admissions than other psych hospitals.
Eventually law suits were filled.

But that is all I remember.

There are patient advocacy groups.
The first one I might look into is nami.
Nami claims to do advocacy work.

It is best to be connected to other people so
that we have people supporting us.


M.

the first from that list is: Wikipedia - The Rosenhan Experiment
that is CREEPY!