Sean Gallagher

Review of Watauga Medical Center

My son, who is a student in Boone, went in to the ...

My son, who is a student in Boone, went in to the ER for an inhaler on the weekend. Clearly not the right decision, but he is a kid. He was offered treatment but refused and ultimately left with an inhaler.
We never received an invoice from the hospital, but yesterday received a call from a collection agency. After contacting the hospitals billing department, we discovered they had sent the bill to the wrong address. They did promptly send the invoice, and this is how we were billed.
The hospital billed us $796.40. $334 of that was for the $65 inhaler. The balance of the money was for medicine and administering the medicine in the hospital, which are events that never happened. Looks like I will have a huge time suck dealing with this mess.