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Disposable gloves! what the heck is going on here? i'm here in the home office of a medical billing advocate. this is cindy. she helps people cull throughal of these crazy charges. she has all sorts of examples. cindy, this is one of my favorite ones. this is just like a little alcohol prep swab. how much did a hospital charge for these once? >> $23 apiece. >> for in little tiny piece of cotton. >> on one bill there were 44 of them. it becomes very expensive. >> but this isn't even the craziest things you've ever seen. tell me about one of your crazier charges. >> recently i had somebody who w...

For 41 bags of saline. to the tune of $4,182. now, the really crazy thing about this is that her insurance company actually paid this bill. they didn't even question it. so why did her insurance company pay for this when it was obviously wrong? >> there is not many people working at these companies anymore. they are very busy and usually, any kind of bill that's under $100,000, they don't look at the detail. >> so they just write a check? >> they just write a check. >> now that woman who was charged the $4,000 for the saline bags she never had, she brought it to the attention of the hospital a...

People go through all these crazy charges and she has all sorts of examples. this is one of my favorite ones. this is just like a little alcohol prep swab. we've all had these. how much did a hospital charge for these once? >> $23 apiece. >> $23 for this tiny piece of cotton. >> on one bill there were 44 of them. it becomes very expensive. >> this isn't even the craziest thing you've seen. tell me about one of your crazier charges? >> recently i had somebody charged for 41 i.v. bags when she went to the e.r. for a two-hour visit. >> you got that right. a woman went to the emergency room with a...

Alcohol prep swab. we've all had these. how much did a hospital karch for these. >> $23 apiece. >> for this tiny piece of cotton. >> on one bill there were 44 of them. becomes very expensive. >> oh, my goodness. this isn't even the craziest thing you've seen. tell me about one of your crazier charges. >> recently i had somebody charged for 41 iv bags when she went to the er for a two-hour visit. >> oh, yes, you heard that right. a woman went to the emergency room with a migraine make and they gave her one bag of saline and then they charged her for 41 bags of saline. to the tune of $4,182. now...

All of these crazy charges and has all sorts of examples. i've got to tell you, this is one of my favorite ones like a little il alcohol prep swab. how much did a hospital charge for these once. >> $23 apiece. >> for this tiny piece of cotton. >> on one bill there were 44 of them. becomes very expensive. >> my goodness. this isn't the craziest thing you've seen. tell me about one of your crazier charges. >> recently i had somebody charged for 41 iv bags when she went to the er for a two-hour visit. >> oh, yes, you heard that right. a woman went to the emergency room with a migraine make and th...