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EZE



Joined: 05 May 2012
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:41 am    Post subject: Asan Medical Center scam Reply with quote
The doctors at this hospital are very good, but beware about a scam this hospital runs on foreigners that I didn't notice until today.

They charge foreigners an amount classified as "other," which is fee they charge the foreign patient just for paying. This fee to pay the clerk was more than my chest x-ray and my visit with the pulmonologist combined. I paid in cash and making the payment probably took less than a minute.
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optik404



Joined: 24 Jun 2008
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
How did you find that out? Did you get the fee taken off? More details man.
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EZE



Joined: 05 May 2012
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
After I got home, I looked at the bill. It had costs for Consultation, Diagnostic Imaging, and 기 타. I was curious what 기 타 was since it was more than the actual medical services combined, so I e-mailed them to find out. They said it was for my guide, my interpreter, and for making my payment. I didn't have a guide or an interpreter, but I did make a payment so they won't take it off. I paid more than double just for paying. I paid just to pay.

Hopefully they won't send a bill in the mail charging me for paying the payment fee. Laughing
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Stain



Joined: 08 Jan 2014
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
EZE wrote:
After I got home, I looked at the bill. It had costs for Consultation, Diagnostic Imaging, and 기 타. I was curious what 기 타 was since it was more than the actual medical services combined, so I e-mailed them to find out. They said it was for my guide, my interpreter, and for making my payment. I didn't have a guide or an interpreter, but I did make a payment so they won't take it off. I paid more than double just for paying. I paid just to pay.

Hopefully they won't send a bill in the mail charging me for paying the payment fee. Laughing


Actually, 기 타 is guitar. You probably brought a guitar to the hospital. I went to the hospital for a cyst. Naturally, I brought a guitar and they told me they had to charge me for it because I wouldn't stop playing it during the surgery.
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3DR



Joined: 24 May 2009
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
기타 would mean "other" in this context. So other expenses not related to your main checkup.
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EZE



Joined: 05 May 2012
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah, they charged me just to pay. But being billed for my air guitar would've been just as logical.
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Stain



Joined: 08 Jan 2014
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
3DR wrote:
기타 would mean "other" in this context. So other expenses not related to your main checkup.


So, in my case my 기타 was 기타.
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Stan Rogers



Joined: 20 Aug 2010
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Stain wrote:
EZE wrote:
After I got home, I looked at the bill. It had costs for Consultation, Diagnostic Imaging, and 기 타. I was curious what 기 타 was since it was more than the actual medical services combined, so I e-mailed them to find out. They said it was for my guide, my interpreter, and for making my payment. I didn't have a guide or an interpreter, but I did make a payment so they won't take it off. I paid more than double just for paying. I paid just to pay.

Hopefully they won't send a bill in the mail charging me for paying the payment fee. Laughing


Actually, 기 타 is guitar. You probably brought a guitar to the hospital. I went to the hospital for a cyst. Naturally, I brought a guitar and they told me they had to charge me for it because I wouldn't stop playing it during the surgery.


Laughing
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optik404



Joined: 24 Jun 2008
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
EZE wrote:
After I got home, I looked at the bill. It had costs for Consultation, Diagnostic Imaging, and 기 타. I was curious what 기 타 was since it was more than the actual medical services combined, so I e-mailed them to find out. They said it was for my guide, my interpreter, and for making my payment. I didn't have a guide or an interpreter, but I did make a payment so they won't take it off. I paid more than double just for paying. I paid just to pay.

Hopefully they won't send a bill in the mail charging me for paying the payment fee. Laughing


Go in person, yell, make a scene and the charge will be taken off.
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hogwonguy1979



Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
that charge has been there for years, it costs them money to have someone to go with you and interpret etc. Every hospital with an international clinic will charge you for that, some more, some less. If your Korean is good enough then don't go to the international clinics.

its not a scam
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