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A Marine Corp Veteran Received $80,000 in Medical Bills for an Appendectomy
It kicked off a months-long battle to have the charges reduced.
By Elizabeth Lawrence, Kaiser Health News Apr 22, 2021 Rachel Woolf
In late August 2019, Shannon Harness awoke to serious pain in the lower right side of his abdomen a telltale sign of appendicitis.
He booked it to the emergency room of the only hospital in the county: Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center in Salida, Colorado. After a CT scan, doctors told Harness he had acute appendicitis and required immediate surgery.
A surgeon performed an appendectomy that night and released Harness the next day.
Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center public relations and marketing director Allison Gergley gave the Salida Hospital Board a presentation on the HRRMC website, including user statistics for the site.
Using the website analytics, Gergley told the board during 2020, which she categorized as a unique year due to COVID-19, there were 152,000 individual visitors to the site with a total of 426,000 page views.
Page views are based on the number of pages visited by a user.
Comparing August 2020 to August 2019, for example, the number of individual site visits was up 37,000 and the number of pages viewed was up 30,000 in 2020.
Gergley said there were three significant ramp ups in the number of visitors to the HRRMC website in 2020, including near the beginning of the pandemic in March, during Julyâs second wave and toward the end of the year into the new years as vaccinations were rolled out.
Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center outpatient pharmacy manager Jonathan Trenary told Salida Hospital District he thought the COVID-19 vaccination program in Chaffee County can be called a huge
Salida Hospital District Board of Directors will hear a presentation on the vaccination clinics from pharmacist Jonathan Trenary at their February meeting.