Kangaroo

G'day viewers.
Retired Captain. Living in the Fabulous Florida Keys. A camping junkie, always great to come home here.

[Olivia Chowdhury @Oliviacoder1]

A guy owed $18,000 to a hospital. He had no insurance. He assumed he was stuck.

His coworker a former hospital financial counselor told him one sentence that changed everything:

“Ask for the self-pay discount.”

He called. Said 7 words: “Do you offer a self-pay cash discount?”

The billing department said yes. Bill dropped to $6,200.

Same visit. Same charges. Same hospital. $11,800 discount. For asking.

“Every hospital in America has a self-pay discount. Uninsured patients get charged the chargemaster rate the highest price that exists. Insured patients get the negotiated rate 40–70% lower. The self-pay discount gives uninsured patients a rate close to the insured rate. But you have to ask. The hospital will never offer it.”

“But the self-pay discount was just one trick. He also asked for an itemized bill found $2,400 in duplicate charges. Asked for a payment plan — got 0% interest for 24 months. Asked for financial hardship assistance the hospital wrote off another $1,800.”

“$18,000 became $4,400. Four phone calls. Four questions. The hospital had every one of these options available the entire time. They just waited for him to ask.”

Here are 9 things most patients never do when they get a hospital bill:🧵

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@JesseKellyDC Make a doo rag out of it.

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@onorma_ Nutella

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@Support_Pauline Yes I hope so! Australia 🇦🇺 needs you Pauline.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@Support_Pauline I hope so! Australia 🇦🇺 needs you Pauline.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@lady_valor_07 Haven't heard of 13.

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@goodefoodsfam I'm a big ingredient reader. That's what I make my decision on unless the price is outrageous or I can make it myself.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@WallStreetApes That's why yr stupid GPS puts you on toll roads every single time. Even when it's a parking lot.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@catturd2 We left st Joseph peninsula st park a week ago because it was all rain. It hasn't stopped raining there since.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@catturd2 Need a saltwater slurry in that coffin. Nothing worse than hot fish.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@LangmanVince Take yr rain gear. It hasn't stopped raining in weeks. We went way north for some sunshine. Lol

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@TAftermath2020 Well god forbid a zillianaire is doing something fantastic for the people. Who cares what they look like. She is a lovely lady.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@BamaSaltyMarine Yea math is hard. Learn to budget, and cook.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@Legacy411 Toaster, it has cool flip feature to turn your bread, because it does one side at a time. I still have one that works.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@1Nicdar Tell me u don't live there w o telling me

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

Ruby falls sits about 1,120 feet below the surface of the Lookout Mountain summit, while the elevator ride down into the cave descends 260 feet.

Was glad to get topside.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@GuntherEagleman Wat a rip. I'm old enough to remember Florida residents only paid 350 for a yearly pass.

[Kangaroo @SandBarTime1]

@CDCgov Quick hide the horse paste.

[Boy George @BoyGeorge]

We will be playing my version of 'We Will Dance Again' at 4.20 am tomorrow morning on Boy George FM. It will be 6.20 in Israel. We will play it again later but I want to honour the victims of the Nova Festival. If you want to hear it maybe get an early night. Tomorrow is a special and very sad day. Never forget!

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[Steven @stevencoder9]

50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring 👇🏼

1. https://t.co/EcjlHR7ZxB — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. https://t.co/jMKbxnmhK7 — See every plane currently in the sky
3. https://t.co/etV46CtFeS — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. https://t.co/SEqzlLnznT — Live map of winds and storms
5. https://t.co/FevkYXk88f — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. https://t.co/HCalw8WPM0 — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. https://t.co/fucAoo0Xco — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. https://t.co/rR5XpGu8DA — Watch forests disappear from space
9. https://t.co/DFexDetESk — The world's statistics, second by second
10. https://t.co/7IPc5kRUUA — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. https://t.co/JrSpfW0PBf — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. https://t.co/ImaK3DdFKe — Maps from centuries ago
13. https://t.co/cVNyrKr1vD — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. https://t.co/IadozUCM8W — World map drawn by volunteers
15. https://t.co/YQfW72rv6M — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. https://t.co/NBjRT5AL4B — Virtual walks through cities
17. https://t.co/YxrvhoneU4 — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. https://t.co/KU6Db4QxFp — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. https://t.co/bHjzcx56Sq — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. https://t.co/W1X0E8N6LW — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. https://t.co/Uy6384fIKc — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. https://t.co/2XRE0BLrBt — Real sky map in your browser
23. https://t.co/efMk3X8WQW — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. https://t.co/8HkspSwOw4 — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. https://t.co/3CQspQX4qA — Visual articles told through data
26. https://t.co/6fyKy4SaNB — The state of the world with real data
27. https://t.co/9EDAPp7PrC — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. https://t.co/bHT1FYeIUb — Visualizing complex data
29. https://t.co/Koh1JPoJKu — World Bank's open data
30. https://t.co/bIq9X1yIFs — Turkey's official statistics database
31. https://t.co/SojPChoErP — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. https://t.co/lXqXkA3WXd — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. https://t.co/ULxsiendsq — Record of every book in the world
34. https://t.co/6n4KW3idVm — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. https://t.co/HmvQJtWufj — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. https://t.co/JtmRRtFoam — America's digital library collection
37. https://t.co/Hh5RwbyXqM — Tour museums from home
38. https://t.co/Ja4aECJKOC — Download artworks in high resolution
39. https://t.co/Cn5ngEaMLR — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. https://t.co/XycSjDxNHW — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. https://t.co/4iYkh1rcCy — Free archive of culture and education
42. https://t.co/R6bUdHyF9f — Met Museum's open collection
43. https://t.co/4jnZ7hxKdd — Family tree of music genres
44. https://t.co/1ZGdX2D1yw — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. https://t.co/URZBBpUFSY — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. https://t.co/ZoaB9Hg5BZ — Random knowledge well
47. https://t.co/PhXatvvmuD — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. https://t.co/fQRqh7x2uX — Live stream of science news
49. https://t.co/AaxWivgaY1 — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. https://t.co/AZZtL0uBwV — Visualize data with live code

Save this list. You’ll probably come back to a few of these later. 🔖

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