Ok, so at this point I am absolutely infuriated!! I just went online to BCBS to see if they had processed the bill from the Hospital from Josiah's ear surgery. Well they have and you better be sitting down when you see this! Oh my word, I can't believe that 1) the hospital has the audacity (spell?) to actually charge that much for us being there for only 3 1/2 hours!!! and 2) we were there for only 3 1/2 hours!!!! I would hate to see how much they charge you for an entire day. My friend figured it out to be $765.00 per hour that we were there!!! That's like 8 times the amount that Dr. Janning's charged us for the actual procedure!!!!
The bill they were trying to charge us for was $2,801.25 and thank goodness we have insurance, because they picked up a measily $124.86 so we have to pay the rest!!! - $2,676.39!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I mention that we were only there for 3 1/2 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am just livid about this whole thing. I can't believe this! And then people wonder why we can't afford health care! Start telling those Doctors and Hospitals to charge reasonable costs for their services! They are needed - yes, but not to the point where they have to charge outlandish prices for their facilities or services!!!!! Up until now we were only left with paying around $600 for all the Clinic visits we had (3 to be exact) and the 2 appts. we had with Dr. Janning's. And here I was afraid of the cost of Dr. Janning's procedures!!! Those were nothing compared to this bill!!!!!!
Boy, if I had 1/2 a notion I'd call the hospital up and complain about this, but I know it wouldn't do me any good. But man would I love too!!!!!!
Need to run - this is way too negative to keep writing about!
Love to you all! ~
M
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