Jo M Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 I went to Bangkok hospital Samui due to chest pain. They give me AKG check and Enzyme blood test. Total cost 7,300 THB, of which the blood test 5,300 baht. I told the cashier it sound not reasonable and paid! I called Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok (Considered the best in south east Asia and graded 9th best hospital in the world in 2016. Cost of same blood test in Bumrungrad... 920 baht !!! I've made sure its same test by referring to the Latin code !!! Practically I could fly to BKK and test and still left with some change. There is no shame in Bangkok Hospital... Don't go there unless you really have to... fly BKK... don't support the greed!!! PLEASE SHARE THIS SO ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE WILL KNOW AND BE AWARE Thank you, JO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinneil Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 If the price was an issue why did you not ask before hand???? If you are in pain in need of medical attention, you just pay up and put up with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchill Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Sounds like a mistake ... I have had blood tests and others at Bangkok Hospital and not been overcharged .. I would query it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Samui Hospital in Nathon, is much cheaper for those services... Also did the OP get a resident discount at BKK hospital ...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allane Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 A hospital that offers a "resident" discount" is a hospital that is overcharging everyone else. I have lived in Thailand 21 years, and have never been to Samui. Now you know why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evadgib Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 1 hour ago, allane said: A hospital that offers a "resident" discount" is a hospital that is overcharging everyone else. I have lived in Thailand 21 years, and have never been to Samui. Now you know why. I'm not sure that we do. What held you back before it opened ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allane Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 If that is addressed to me , I have two questions: 1. Who is "we"? 2. Before what opened ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delgarcon Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 On 09/03/2017 at 2:01 PM, colinneil said: If the price was an issue why did you not ask before hand???? If you are in pain in need of medical attention, you just pay up and put up with it. You don't actually colin! 3 years ago I was sent to Bangkok hospital Samui from KPG by speed boat and ambulance, by the local doctor who thought I'd had a heart attack. Shortly after arriving in ICU I was asked to sign a form, by an administrator, telling me that the 1st night in the hospital would cost between 60,000 and 68,000 baht and that I must pay 30% up front. I asked her when would I see the cardiologist, to which she replied, "there is not a cardiologist on the island befoer Tuesday!" It being Saturday, my insurance company and I were looking at a bill of around 200,000 baht for 3 nights in the "hotel" Bangkok hospital with no specialist treatment. I asked why I and other tourists were being ripped off in this way and I was treated to the Thai smile. Anyway, by this time I was feeling much better and I got my gf to call a taxi to take me to the government hospital, where I received excellent care and attention and a bed for the night and some floor space for my gf among the family m,embers of the other patients. I was discharged the next morning and my total bill, including dinner, breakfast and medication was less than 8000 baht. So no, we don't all pay up and put up with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evadgib Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 How much for the speedboat and clinic in KPG? It usually exceeds 100k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmine Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 On 3/9/2017 at 7:57 PM, allane said: A hospital that offers a "resident" discount" is a hospital that is overcharging everyone else. I have lived in Thailand 21 years, and have never been to Samui. Now you know why. No i don't know why. If you haven't been here your entire opinion is based around others opinions and heresay. For the record Bangkok Hospitals over pricing is despicable but you don't have to use that one, as all the other hospitals are much less costly. Just the same as you don't need to pay for a hotel at 30000 per night unless you choose to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delgarcon Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 8 hours ago, evadgib said: How much for the speedboat and clinic in KPG? It usually exceeds 100k. The speedboat was a complete and utter joke! They laid me on the bottom of the boat and the cowboy doing the steering made sure I felt every damn wave. Cost me arond 23000 baht for the total transport if I remember correctly. I was examined initially in KPG hospital by Dr Worowat and the bill wasn't excessive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuijimmy Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Last time I saw the Hospital speed boat it was in total disrepair at the Samui Hospital, ( behind the new Physio centre, in the channel) that was two or three years ago at least... Perhaps they have a new one?... but its not in sight that I have seen. I have seen people being unloaded on stretchers on the Lomprayah ferry more than once... with Ambulance waiting.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junglechef Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I've been treated at BKK Hospital in Samui, Chiang Mai and Hua Hin and though more expensive then others always had decent care and never felt ripped-off. On the other hand recently given an estimate at another hospital in Chiang Mai and the price was 200,000 bht. When I asked for an itemized quote 100,000 bht was not accounted for and when I asked was told it was for antibiotics!! Ended up going to a hospital in Bangkok (which might have ben mentioned in the OP ) and they took a 100% deposit and ended up not doing the procedure but kept over 50,000 bht and told me to fly back next week (for the 3rd time) for a CAT scan (which they said was not necessary when I asked on my first visit). Private hospitals are a business and many of their doctors don't have any qualms about endangering the life of a child for profit!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futsukayoi Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 My main complaint is the complete rip of for medicines. My last visit included 48o baht for a small tube of Deep Heat !! A couple of times I checked both Bangkok and Samui International and found they have billed 2 or 3 times the price of an outside pharmacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchooptip Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 If we need to for me or my wife we go to International hospital in front of Tesco Lotus, prices are undoubtably reasonable. My wife spent a night there two years ago, I am sorry not to remember what we paid, had I found it too expensive I surely would remember but for sure nothing to do with the Bangkok hospital prices. However most tourists are sent to Bangkok hospital. Bandon hospital not far Big C has fair prices too, and there is an English man at the reception desk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
churchill Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 5 hours ago, futsukayoi said: My main complaint is the complete rip of for medicines. My last visit included 48o baht for a small tube of Deep Heat !! A couple of times I checked both Bangkok and Samui International and found they have billed 2 or 3 times the price of an outside pharmacy. Yes the medicines are a rip off .. but you don't have to buy medicines from them , although of course they prefer you to . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemskaSven Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Yesterday I visit Bkk hospital in Rayong. The dentist has normal charge. 1500 to take out a tooth, that's fare. But intensive care without insurance I will not recommend. Sent from my Redmi Note 4 using Thaivisa Connect mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Beaver Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 When I last visited Bangkok Hospital Samui, the doctor I saw gave me the names of the medicines I needed, and said get a a local pharmacy for much less. I had not even asked her about the price.. she volunteered that info! . The doctor bill, I thought was fairly reasonable,. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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