On 10/04/2016 9:39 AM, Janet B wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 08:18:44 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
>
>> "Gary" wrote in message ...
>>
>> Cheri wrote:
>>>
>>> "Gary" wrote in message ...
>>>
>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I spend 4 days in ICU and another 3 nights in the hospital. I was billed
>>>> nothing for all that.
>>>
>>> My God. If that was in the USA, you would face a bill of (just
>>> guessing) over $20K.
>>> ===========
>>>
>>> Are you kidding? Well over $75,000.00 would be more like it.
>>
>> I believe you, Cheri. I'm just medical-billing challenged. 4 days in
>> ICU would certainly run it up quite a bit.
>> ==========
>>
>> My dh took a fall four or so years ago, he went to emergency, had a cat scan,
>> stitches in his eye, and treatment for assorted scrapes and bruises, stayed for
>> four hours total, the bill was $23,000.00 billed out to Medicare. Thankfully, we
>> had a pretty small co-pay in all of it considering the size of the bill, but I
>> spent 13 years without insurance, so I feel your pain. The only upside is that a
>> person finds out that the body is pretty good at healing itself, and there are
>> no hypochondriacs running to the doctor every time they sneeze among the average
>> uninsured person. :-)
>>
>> Cheri
> Your prices seem way out of line to me. I went to the Emergency Room
> last fall because I thought I was having a DVT issue. I was there a
> couple of hours, saw a doctor a couple of times, was hooked up for IV,
> had a blood test and the bill was a little over $400. I don't
> remember what the billing was when I was in the hospital one week in
> ICU and another in the heart unit, had surgery, plenty of tests but it
> was well under $100,000. Of course, this is a non-profit hospital --
> maybe that makes a difference. This isn't a podunk hospital.
> Janet US
>
My new grand-daughters spent time in the NICU, the younger one nearly 4
months. With the emergency C-section my DIL had, I dread to think what
that lot would have cost in the USA.
Graham