Wow!

[doghouse]

Keep your health insurance if you can afford it. My wife had spinal surgery on her neck. Fused c4 thru c7 I think. Over night in hospital and sent home by 10am the next day. I was shocked at the statement. Hope it is all covered.

[brokeno]

Wow x2

[Hotrodd]

Wow is right!

[flywise]

We spend so much money on these third world peasants it’s no wonder hospitals take it out on the rest of us.

[glen]

I had a lower lumbar spinal fusion several years ago. It was a work injury. Somehow they sent me an itemized bill for over $400k. I was on the phone quick. You should get an itemized bill. The plastic jug they hung in the side of the bed was over $50

[Drycreek3189]

We spend so much money on these third world peasants it’s no wonder hospitals take it out on the rest of us.

This chit right here ! It’s disgusting !

[SamHarper]

I thought this was going to be a thread on SETI's Wow signal, but WOW!

[Dirt Napper]

So insurance paid $3700 on a $142,000 bill?

[JLivi1224]

Medical billing is disgustingly fraudulent

Had twins in NICU for 5 weeks. “Services rendered”?? 1.1M per kid.

[bbqfan5909]

Hitting that deductible is my guess.

So insurance paid $3700 on a $142,000 bill?

[Bisch]

So insurance paid $3700 on a $142,000 bill?

That’s the first thing that caught my eye too!!!!

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[Huntindad]

Medicare paid for most all of it...is my take on it.

[Dirt Napper]

Can you provide more info? Is Medicare the primary payor, or do you have a Medicare advantage/replacement plan? Is the EOB a Medicare EOB or is it from the "secondary" insurance plan? An EOB is not a bill. Seems like there's missing info. Medicare covers 80%, if primary, leaving a 20% coinsurance. 20% on $142,000 is $28,400. So the "secondary" pays $1500? Remember, the docs can bill you whatever they want, but it boils down to contracted payment rates.

[Starman]

Yes, the billing is crazy and almost indecipherable.

Methodist, then MD Anderson, combined, billed well over $1 million during my wife’s 7 month battle with a nasty cancer.

We were on TRS for active teachers, then TRS for retired teachers for the last month. With all of the discounts and adjustments, I just had to pay the out of pocket maximum. Actually 3 out of pocket maximums in 7 months because of when she was diagnosed and the way the insurance start date fell. And when her retirement started. If she’d been diagnosed in a different month, I might have paid less than $7000 for a $1 million plus original billing.

As it was, I paid around $20,000 for original billings of $1million plus.

So, yeah, you better have health insurance when you need it.

Here is an example of just one month’s billing from MD Anderson.

[kry226]

Y'all must have Tricare!