On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 12:41:38 PM UTC-4, graham wrote:
> 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.

It might have cost your son and daughter-in-law next to nothing,
depending on their insurance.

Cindy Hamilton