SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS????

[quietann]

I just got the bill for my tubal ligation. Six thousand dollars. For a 20 minute elective surgery (admittedly with general anesthesia). I'd priced it at $2500-3000, based on info from the web, and the fact that *if* my insurance had covered it, the hospital would have accepted the $2500 payment from insurance as "payment in full."

This sucks. I mean, I would not have had it done if I had known.