Is this billl right?

[Skhosu]

Friend of mine just got a bill for +1K from vets.
For an infected cut..
pony been staying at vets to get antibiotics, were told 15 quid a day, has been there a week.
I would have thought around 500 would be appropriate, how on earth has this become 1K?
I said they should query it....apparently there's a £500 service charge in there!

 

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Have they had a invoice mix up!........

 

[spaniel]

I would suspect £150 per day not £15!! The horse has been on full nursing livery plus treatments plus drugs. Hope she is insured!

 

[monica123]

blimey! thats a lot!

 

[moon_drop]

I would ask the vet for a detail bill to see what the vet has charge her for. I hope that she is insured!!

 

[icemaiden113]

Hmm expensive but about right, old horse we had spent a week at vet hospital after a thorne infection!Cost £1700! Was the 24 hour nursing that cost the moneY! Hope it's insured!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

£15 per day to be on livery & have nursing at a veterinary hospital.....you must be joking. Just for a vet to pull up on the carpark of a yard is £30. It will be probably £150 per day at livery there as someone has already said.........£1000 bill will probably be about right, the bill will come itemised right down to a piece of vetwrap & latex gloves used.

Let's hope your friend has insurance.

 

[henryhorn]

If you check the bill carefully you might find the cost of the drugs themselves are very high.
For deep seated infections they often have to have a port put in and the injections (anti biotics) done up to three times a day. My vet allowed me to cope with this at home, or it would have been astronomical in the end.
The injections we used were £9 each, so if you work that out it' a lot. Not however £1000, I admit I would nearly die if I got a bill like that!

 

[FMM]

It is possible that they charge £15 per day just for "accommodation". The rest of the money will have gone towards the treatment.

 

[BroadfordQueen]

my sisters horse had an infected cut and it came to around £1k too, so sounds about right to me.

 

[Skhosu]

unluckily...no, not insured!!
They can afford it, but it's not like it's spare!
I think it was 15 for accomodation, then the rest for treatment, but I do feel sorry for them, bit of a blow!

 

[annaellie]

I think that sound right I had a mare who had an op it came to nearly £3000 but a lot of that bill was nursing livery The after care was as expensive as the op

 

[claire1976]

OMG my mare had an infected wound on her hock and bill came to nearly £3000 after hospital stays, scans, anti-robitics, livery, nursing etc. Took 3 months of treatment, although only at hospital for 3 days.
Thank god for insurance.
£1000 ??? Sounds a bargain to me!!

 

[Sparklet]

£15 is quite cheap - I had to pay £30 per day livery when my horse had post-operative care (by the way the PO care was charged separately)

The bit I didnt realise is that some insurance companies will only cover half the cost of the livery charge, so the bill to the individual is often considerably more than the excess.

 

[burtie]

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The bit I didnt realise is that some insurance companies will only cover half the cost of the livery charge

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And some including a well known one used by many in here won't pay anything towards livery. Also check your policy for cost of transport to hosipital if you don't have your own!