I'm not sure if I'm comparing apples to oranges here, but my dad was an MD; and with humans in a hospital setting the bill was usually for the entire cost of the 'package' of medication or tools or whatever... simply because there couldn't be a justification for using "used" meds or goods to the next patient. I mean, imagine how you'd feel if your prescriptions were cobbled together out of three or four other peoples leftovers? There also is no way to be certain a med would still be sterile... no way to know if one batch number of one bottle of something mixed with a second batch number of another partial bottle of something wouldn't contaminate the first, etc. etc. This thinking applied right down to the boxes of kleenexes and q-tips at the bedside... (the thermometers always go home with the patient, right? because who'd want someone elses used rectal thermometer?) and so forth...</DIV> Its actually a very sound procedure to always use a new bottle/set/pack of whatever it is in a hospital situation. Thats why many many companies are now packaging things in "single dose units" these days,,, just so the patient doesn't have to pay for more than they actually use. Sure, it's a shame you have no use for the leftover ringers lactate or whatever... but if the case with Luna was they'd billed for the entire bottle and had leftovers maybe the least they could have done was give you all the partial bottles to take with you since you'd paid for them! Latas Kimberly [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 3668]