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Yeah lol, here's a $7k expensed bill, that your insurance covers an unpredictably random amount of, due to hyperbyzantine complexity of billing codes and what not, for ultimately a sterilized suture and some ibuprofen/tylenol, that anyone with basic field medic training could have done in 15 minutes, charged maybe I dunno, $50 - $100 bucks for labor and supplies.
ProTip: Go to a hospital without your wallet or phone, don't give them your name.
This is the entire fatal conceit/flaw of the US medical system, which private insurance just actually can't address, I guess maybe unless we also implement a digital panopticon society with biometric ID resolving cameras literally everywhere.