Another Bill

[geekychic]

I have been procrastinating on paying some of my hospital bills. Mostly because everytime I pay one, I get 4 more and I don't want anymore.

I just paid a bill with one item:

Newborn Resuscitation.



In case you were wondering: $510.00

[eav2c]

Say whaaaaaaaaa :-|

[Deleted]

WTAF?

[EmmieB1025]

I got one yesterday for $1700 for newborn nursery. Here's the kicker - when I delivered there was NO nursery in the hospital! A new one was being built but hadn't opened yet, and the old one had closed. There was a temporary nursery set-up in one of the rooms on the floor. All babies were roomed-in with NO choice. Why am I getting a $1700 nursery bill?

[geekychic]

Yeah.

I feel like the wording could have been better. But now I know how much my baby's life was worth to them.

I got a nursery bill, too, even though she roomed in. But they had a nursery.

[EmmieB1025]

I agree, the wording is terrible!

I am so frustrated with insurance and bills! I'm ready for everything to be paid and taken care of once and for all.

[erniebufflo]

That may be the fee to have a pediatrician on call in case the baby needed resuscitation. Both of my girls went with their own "resuscitation teams" to be checked out, even though they didn't literally need resuscitation and were breathing fine. It's when they do the APGAR and all that jazz. (But: medical billing is ridiculous.)

[geekychic]

She needed resuscitation. They had a team on stand-by because of meconium in the water and then she wasn't breathing.

It just kinda sucks seeing it on a bill. I forget a lot that her first hour was kind of rough.

[erniebufflo]

Sept 18, 2012 14:57:53 GMT -5 geekychic said:

She needed resuscitation. They had a team on stand-by because of meconium in the water and then she wasn't breathing.

It just kinda sucks seeing it on a bill. I forget a lot that her first hour was kind of rough.

Ah. I know what you mean about the forgetting. I'm kinda thankful I was hopped up on Versed when the transport team took Claire away in her little plastic box.

[geekychic]

I had morphine... But that was on another bill.

[erniebufflo]

Sept 18, 2012 15:55:44 GMT -5 geekychic said:

I had morphine... But that was on another bill.

Ha! For a while it was a contest as to whether Claire or I would have the bigger bill. She won, hands down. But I racked up over $30k myself (thank God we have insurance). She was over $200k. Thank God for insurance and Medicaid for disabilities.