Vets bill for George arrived today

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I nearly keeled over when I saw it £463!! That seems pretty horrendous to me for a cut, I was charged £70 for the bandage alone
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and there is still the return visit this weds to add on. I have only had routine bills before so I've no experience but does this seems excessive or am I overreacting?
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Just paid out £167.29p for x-rays of cat!!
Got to pay another £30 tomorrow so as the oesteo will look at them....then maybe facing £300+ for op to pin!!!!
.....and I had to take the cat to them!!
 
Hiya,

That sounds rather a lot especially the bandage charge! I would ask for an itemised breakdown of the bill if I were you and as you know my OH is a Vet so I am fairly clued up on costs. Hope George is well on the way to recovery.
 
I would question the price of the bandage... IF I ever have the vet to horse with a cut that needs bandaging, I supply my own.... from the pictures didn't George have a vettrap bandage??
 
That does seem quite alot ... just for some sort of comparison, I have just got mine for £190 + .... this was for
2 call outs
2 exam & advise
1 Flu Jab
1 Flu + Tet Jab

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Have they broken the bill down for you???

I'm guessing as it was a Sunday call out (wasn't it) the call out was probably £100 to start with, then wound flushing and stitching, probably sedation and antibiotic and not forgeting VAT (which was probably about £80ish on its own)..................so no I'm not surprised, but yes it is a lot.
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Hope your insurance excesses isn't too much.....
 
£70 for a bandage
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what was it, gold lined
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Think I would be querying that bill.
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It does seem very high... is he insured? As a comparison I was charge £110 last year when my horse came in with a hole in her flank. That covered two callouts, a weeks worth of bute, antibiotics and an injection. Due to the location there was no bandaging.
 
ok it was a Sunday, but there are 3 different call out charges itemised amounting to over £150, £70 for the bandage (it says robert jones??), a nerve block and 3 other injections, £30 for nursing - eh? £45 for anti b's and then various sundry items incld £5 for a pair of surgical gloves! oh and £40 for stitching. Yes he is in insured and the xs is £120 I was hoping not to claim to avoid an exclusion but i'll have to now
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A Robert Jones is an incredible bandage, not just a few vetwraps.
Was this at home all on one day and one visit?
 
Ditto LCobby....... isnt a Robert Jones bandage one with a splinty thing in it to immobilise the leg????

£150 out of hours call out is about right..... but I can get a box of 50 pairs of surgeons gloves for a fiver!!!!

A horse on our yard a few years ago trod on his own lip and it needed stitching.... .the bill including a saturday night call out (vet in tuxedo was an amusing sight) sedation and stitching....... Total cost £550..... obviously no bandaging needed or possible on a lip!!!!
 
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A horse on our yard a few years ago trod on his own lip and it needed stitching.... .the bill including a saturday night call out (vet in tuxedo was an amusing sight) sedation and stitching....... Total cost £550..... obviously no bandaging needed or possible on a lip!!!!

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Did that include the dry cleaning bill????
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If it makes you feel any better I received my vet bill last week. After a month of battling strangles, I was expecting it to be large, but I nearlly passed out when I read £1692!

Thank God for petplan, the pony cost less than that to start with!

NB: I did not get charged £70 for a bandage, sounds like they've fluffed it somewhere!
 
You MUST MUST MUST question your bill - and please post pics of his bandaged leg as I will be utterly shocked if it was an RJ they used! Tell them that you are paying the bill, NOT the insurers, and you absolutely refute the nursing care (as he was in YOUR care) and the gloves for a start!
 
Did he bring a nurse with him..... from what I remember georges owner was at a church baptism????

Just googled the RJ bandage and they all look like huge immobilising bandages..... suppose it could be one just for the fetlock rather than whole leg???
 
Did he bring a nurse with him..... from what I remember georges owner was at a church baptism????

Just googled the RJ bandage and they all look like huge immobilising bandages..... suppose it could be one just for the fetlock rather than whole leg???

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Another specialist bandage is the Robert Jones bandage, which offers very firm support and is used for:


the stabilisation of certain fractures

to support an injured limb

to protect the limb following surgery

It can be applied to either the whole limb or just the lower half. A non-stick dressing is placed over the wound and held in place by a layer of orthopaedic padding. A thick layer of cotton wool is then applied, secured and compressed by a conforming cotton bandage. This step is repeated a number of times until a solid, support bandage is achieved. A final, adhesive layer is then applied.


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Suppose a splinty thing not always needed then
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That looks like it is to immobilse the fetlock.

Was a second person there as vet nurse?

My vets do not charge for things such as gloves, syringes and needles, for a fiver I'd want a box of latex gloves ( well 5,50 for 100 in Tesco pharmacy)
 
OK so looking at the pic who KNOWS what is under there - OP is the bandage still on? If not then were you there when it was removed, WHAT was removed?

I am smelling a big smelly fish TBH!
 
Now, now there is obviously several layers of some sort of wadding or something under the vet wrap................and the vet wrap is a rather fetching green colour (no doubt carefully chosen, so as not to clash with the chesnut leg)!!!..............but worth £70???
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£70
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. My horse had Robert Jones and they were for his full leg, right up to his belly. They were £50 just for the vet to do it plus vet wraps, elastoplast, gamgee etc, came to about £100 + vat.
 
Merlins bandage looked just like that when he had the Irap injected back into his fetlock...... and I can assure you it didnt cost £70
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I think the vets optimise on the fact that most of us have insurance and will not query the bill.....

I got charged hospital admission of £35 for merlin to stand in an empty stable to have 6 x-rays taken!!!! And another examination fee of £35........ which was deemed a waste of time examining him as he was on painkillers, despite me having already told the locum vet that he was on 4 sachets of danilon a day.....

Of course he looks better you Prat..... he cant feel anything!!!!!
 
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