Consumer Confidential: She was billed $809 for a boot for her broken foot. Amazon charges $80
Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch recently broke her foot while horseback riding. She got treated at a UCLA-affiliated orthopedic facility in Thousand Oaks, California, and has no complaints about the quality of care.
"My doctors were fantastic," Drachkovitch told me. "This isn't about them."
What this is about, as you've probably already guessed, is her subsequent bill for medical care — yet another example of how our healthcare system routinely rips people off with inflated, nonsensical charges.
In Drachkovitch's case, what caught her attention was the bill's $809 charge for the plastic walking boot that was placed on her foot
