Hospital Bill

[Ken N Tx]

Got my hospital bill yesterday(Black Friday).

As of now i only owe my $100 deductable!!

Will have to wait and see what the insurance company rejects!!

[simple_john]

WOW :omg:

26 k.... big money, i saw only one hospital bill for my knee.... around 12,000 i thought that was fairly reasonable......:fing20:

[Dachshund]

I'd need a second stay in the hospital if I got a bill like that! :00000060:
We don't have any insurance (can't afford it!), so we just don't get sick! :fing20:

[Ken N Tx]

I'd need a second stay in the hospital if I got a bill like that! :00000060:
We don't have any insurance (can't afford it!), so we just don't get sick! :fing20:

Galen, that was the first time in 61 years that i went to a hospital!

I have been with FedEx for 15 years and our med. insurance was FREE up until 2 years ago.. I now pay $24 a week(before taxes) for coverage for me and the wife.

If i did not have the insurance, i may have opted to go to the county hospital and let them fight me for the bill later.

[dirtybernie]

ken. i hate to tell you this but the extra nurse (sponge bath back rubs etc..) and the optional room service (martinis beer etc..) will not be covered! dont put the credit card away yet! ROF

[Argee]

Hospitals have a license to steal. The bill for my life changing event and subsequent open heart surgery was astounding...totalling in excess of $100,000 and the bills are still coming in almost 2 years later.

[MikeC]

Hospitals have a license to steal. The bill for my life changing event and subsequent open heart surgery was astounding...totalling in excess of $100,000 and the bills are still coming in almost 2 years later.

I had to have my neck pinned (ruptured disks removed and bone/metal supports put in) about 3 years ago. The surgery lasted about 2 hours and I was in the hospital overnight. $50,000+. Just seems crazy to me, but it's better than the alternative...

[Argee]

I almost forgot...My defibrillator was recalled in March..I had to go in for outpatient surgery to have it switched out....they billed my insurance company $30,000...I cried foul...told them that it was a defective unit and the manufacturer should be liable for the cost of replacement....WRONG!! That's not how it works in the medical billing world....WHAT A RACKET!!!

[dirtyEd]

I simply can't read this thread anymore, I just get sick thinkin about it.

[Michael]

I have had 3 micro operations on my left ear in the last 2 and half years and they were all done on out-patient basis.

Operation One, was a bone replacement in the ear. Total cost was $5,598.00

Operation Two, was a skin graft on half the ear drum. Total Cost was $4,800.00

Operation Three, was another skin graft on the restof the left ear drum Total Cost $3,960.00

I paid all of Ten dollars on my Co-Pay. So a total of $14,358.00 for the problems that I have had on a regular basis on the left ear. This does not include having to have another tube put in the eardrum because I could not drain fluid from the inner ear and all the follow-ups that I have had before or after having these operations or any of the bills for the doctors visits with the specialist.

I had a heart valve replacement over ten years ago and thought it was out of sight when I saw that bill slightly over $12,000 but now realize that the cost is probably double or even triple.