Sticker Shock

Blacklight · 10-06-08, 09:40 PM

When I was in the hospital for my heart sugury, I got whopped with an almost $10,000 bill including two ambulence rides. I WISH that bill had been 3200 dollars !! It took me FOREVER and pretty much bankrupted me to pay that thing off. And then three years after that, I had to go back in for more heart surgury !

August · 10-06-08, 10:57 PM

Last year 70k for the installation of two stents in my right coronary artery and two nights in the hospital for observation/recovery. I paid 1k deductible, insurance paid the rest. They've also been paying 80% of my related medications.

10-06-08, 09:40 PM	#1
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	When I was in the hospital for my heart sugury, I got whopped with an almost $10,000 bill including two ambulence rides. I WISH that bill had been 3200 dollars !! It took me FOREVER and pretty much bankrupted me to pay that thing off. And then three years after that, I had to go back in for more heart surgury ! __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

10-06-08, 10:57 PM	#2
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,213 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Last year 70k for the installation of two stents in my right coronary artery and two nights in the hospital for observation/recovery. I paid 1k deductible, insurance paid the rest. They've also been paying 80% of my related medications. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.