{"id":124,"date":"2008-06-05T23:21:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-06-05T23:21:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T06:21:51","slug":"parts-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/parts-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"parts &amp; labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img-1107.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"262\" alt=\"IMG_1107\" src=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/img-1107-thumb.jpg\" width=\"431\" border=\"0\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>So, the bills have started to come in for the tune up that I had almost a month ago.&nbsp; The interesting part here is that the parts are much than I would have thought they should be compared to the labor.&nbsp; The bill above wasn&#8217;t the only set of charges, just the major ones.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Altogether labor was around $4800 and parts were $6100. Only 44% of the cost was to pay the highly skilled knife wielder and the gas man who was balancing my brain in the here-nor-there for an hour or so?&nbsp; Given that the parts left in me were minor, I have to assume the rest of the costs were to pay other random care-takers &amp; bed rental, etc.&nbsp; Somehow I guess I expected the two individuals who were in charge of the whole operation to get a bit more than 44%.&nbsp; Makes me wish I would have left a tip.<\/p>\n<p>The real brain scratcher is the insurance company&#8217;s black magic that allows the surgeon\/hospital to charge X, and the insurance company to &#8220;adjust&#8221; the rate down and pay only 20% of X.&nbsp; I can see now why insurance companies are indispensable&#8230; they must have god-like bargaining power.&nbsp; No wonder people are so boned w\/o insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the bills have started to come in for the tune up that I had almost a month ago.&nbsp; The interesting part here is that the parts are much than I would have thought they should be compared to the labor.&nbsp; The bill above wasn&#8217;t the only set of charges, just the major ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[76,79,77,78],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-pointless","tag-insurance","tag-labor","tag-money","tag-parts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}