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I just received a summary statement from the hospital for my first stay there of three weeks. (I've had a total of three stays covering about 5 weeks minus the 3-4 days I was home between re-admissions.) This statement was not a bill for me, but a notice of how much they are billing my insurance company.
There is a breakdown of 18 different categories of charges ranging from a low of $1,988 to a high of $75,926. The grand total is....
$245,473.88!!
And that doesn't even include all of the individual bills I will receive from the myriad of doctors who treated me over that three-week period.
Now, I have no doubt that since this hospital is part of the BCBS network, that these charges will be reduced significantly and that BCBS will make a much smaller payment to them, but even so, that is still an unbelievable bill.
I just received a summary statement from the hospital for my first stay there of three weeks. (I've had a total of three stays covering about 5 weeks minus the 3-4 days I was home between re-admissions.) This statement was not a bill for me, but a notice of how much they are billing my insurance company.
There is a breakdown of 18 different categories of charges ranging from a low of $1,988 to a high of $75,926. The grand total is....
$245,473.88!!
And that doesn't even include all of the individual bills I will receive from the myriad of doctors who treated me over that three-week period.
Now, I have no doubt that since this hospital is part of the BCBS network, that these charges will be reduced significantly and that BCBS will make a much smaller payment to them, but even so, that is still an unbelievable bill.
It's such a game - for both the ins. company and the IRS when they write off huge amounts. Hope you're feeling better - glad that's nt your bill.
Yes, MMoB, it is indeed amazing! My Hubby and I watch the news together on the tv, and every time I hear about someone on the "margins" of society getting injured -- for example, young man committing a robbery and getting shot -- we comment on the unnecessary medical bills that will now be run up at a hospital, and the wasted time a surgeon must spend fixing injuries that would not have had to be taken care of, had the young man behaved himself in the first place. And who pays these bills?
We do, of course! All of us! So some of the inflated costs we see go toward the unpaid bills of criminals. So you get charged 50 cents for an Aspirin? Well, part of that goes for the nurse's salary, part of it goes for the electric bill, a small part for the cost of the Aspirin, part goes to the BCBS CEO's salary, a smaller part to the Billing clerk's salary, and part to pay for the unpaid bill that the criminal ran up and did not pay.
I wish I had the magic solution for these problems. There are some reasonable common sense solutions available, but it appears the government does not want to go down that road. So, hopefully you will not be stressing out about your hospital bill, and will just concentrate on getting yourself feeling better!
I saw on the news tonight that many big health corporations are buying doctor's facilities and now are charging patients for "use of the facility" so you get an extra bill on top of what the doctor charges. Good Grief. Is it ever going to stop ? And many doctors are now becoming "concierge" docs and take only a certain number of patients. My old PCP, whom I loved, in Chandler, decided to become one and charged every patient he took $1600 a year to remain his patient. I opted out and stayed with his nurse practitioner who was just as competent.
I saw on the news tonight that many big health corporations are buying doctor's facilities and now are charging patients for "use of the facility" so you get an extra bill on top of what the doctor charges. Good Grief. Is it ever going to stop ? And many doctors are now becoming "concierge" docs and take only a certain number of patients. My old PCP, whom I loved, in Chandler, decided to become one and charged every patient he took $1600 a year to remain his patient. I opted out and stayed with his nurse practitioner who was just as competent.
Oh, gosh. "Use of the facilities"? I had a similar stupid high bill as MMOB for a Sunday stay. $30,000.00 for a day during which nothing whatever was done. And that was just room and board - there were nurse visits several times during that do-nothing day, billed separately.
Is it ever going to stop? Well, I have heard all the complaints about socialized medicine. And I wouldn't dispute any of them. I would say we have equal if not worse complaints here. And socialized (single provider single payer) medicine at least stops the insurance/health-for-profit game.
I saw on the news tonight that many big health corporations are buying doctor's facilities and now are charging patients for "use of the facility" so you get an extra bill on top of what the doctor charges.
I saw on the news tonight that many big health corporations are buying doctor's facilities and now are charging patients for "use of the facility" so you get an extra bill on top of what the doctor charges. Good Grief. Is it ever going to stop ? And many doctors are now becoming "concierge" docs and take only a certain number of patients. My old PCP, whom I loved, in Chandler, decided to become one and charged every patient he took $1600 a year to remain his patient. I opted out and stayed with his nurse practitioner who was just as competent.
This is truly horrifying. When I read things like this I am glad I'm 75 and not 25. Can you imagine what our grandkids, etc. will be paying? This really sounds like robbery. And while I'm sure I'll never leave the US (although Canada is starting to look good)....... it does make other countries sound good.
Our son and family is in England for three weeks visiting the other grands and I'm on pet duty for them. They live two miles away, but now it's two houses and double the pets. It's been 2 1/2 days and I'm tired already! They watch our pets when we are gone, so I'm not complaining... much.
Coming home I saw a man riding his recumbent bike that lives near DS's neighborhood. He's quite the entrepreneur. His recumbent has a huge attached umbrella, a crate behind and above him that usually has a small dog or cat in it. He has his own dog and usually another that he is walking while on his recumbent. He's retired and this is the way he walks dogs. He picks them up at their homes and walks them in the mornings and evenings. He also has banners and advertisements attached to his bike from local businesses. He's quite colorful with his umbrella and adverts and he's very visible on the road. It's a great idea for making a few bucks and getting exercise for him too. He makes me smile every time I see him, and I see him quite often around the area.
Doesn't matter. It's all a huge game and Medicare is in on it. Medicare will just reimburse the health care/insurance companies what they choose to reimburse. The health care/insurance companies will continue to issue ridiculously high bills to people who carry any sort of insurance, hoping to profit (yes, even so-called non-profits) from them.
Been doing research on my ancestors. Got as far as 1600 England on my maternal side, and 1700's Kentucky paternal side. A revolutionary war Captain, a Civil War soldier, and a Spanish American War soldier in my past along with WW2. Seems everyone had about 15 kids. Must have been some cold winters back then. Fascinating stuff, but my brain is about to explode.
I've had some difficulties with my research due to the fact that two family surnames were spelled differently. In one name a T was dropped from the name; in the other an L was dropped. I've also found that a few of the genealogy websites do not always have the correct information I found one site that had the spellings correct for both names however the location they had was wrong.
Another website had a different husband for my fourth cousin Martha who was called "Patty". The two websites had exactly the same birthdate, nicknames and maiden names. Why would her husband be different?
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I found one site that had the spellings correct for both names however the location they had was wrong.