09/05/2024
So I wanted to share something rather personal. My wife had an angiogram at the Bakersfield Heart Hospital which is now owned by Adventist Health. Everything was normal so that's good. But two things completely shocked me. One was the way patients are treated like a piece of meat. They force you to strip naked, even though they are going thru the wrist (really????). Then while my wife's breasts were completely exposed, the girl who drew my wife's labs went to open the door. I had to stop her and tell her to wait until my wife was covered. The two employees who were in the room seemed perplexed on why I would request such a thing. This room had a direct view to the waiting room (and yes, there were people we knew in the waiting room) and they are also walking patients back and forth past the door. I mean really Adventist Health, what a shocking display of making patients feel they are just a piece of meat. I complained (it took multiple calls to finally get an email to complain) and the response was tepid to say the least. An "apology" was offered but no assurance was made that this would be addressed with the employees or in training of the staff.
As if that weren't shocking enough, they billed Blue Shield $420,853.30--YES THAT'S FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND AND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE DOLLARS, for a procedure that lasted less than two hours from start to finish was almost HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. And Blue Shield paid an ASTOUNDING $90,282.60. If you thought Veterinary care was expensive it pales in comparison to this complete ripoff. There is a reason our Health Care is substandard in this country. And this didn't include charges for anything else. The MD she had to see after this to "relay the results" charged an outrageous $700 just to give her the results.
We relay results at no charge.
It is hard not to feel ripped off by our Human Medical system. My wife and I struggle to keep costs as low as possible for our clients. But seeing how the human side of medicine treats people is absolutely shameful. It feels like Adventist Health is trying to recover their purchase of the heart hospital in just a few treatments.
Adventist Health was the highest of all that I surveyed after I received this bill and the care was substandard. Just shameful
I advise everyone to avoid the Bakersfield Adventist Heart Hospital as they are blatantly ripping off the system and treating their patients with less respect than we treat your pets.
PS: We promise never to expose your pet's breasts........LOL
