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.

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[quietann.livejournal.com]

He thought it would be about $3000.

ah....

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Did you ask him what the discrepancy was? damn. I mean, that really sucks.

Re: ah....

[quietann.livejournal.com]

update: having talked to the hospital, it now appears that the $3000 was *his* charge. The other $3000 was hospital charges. The hospital is going to try billing my *other* insurance (COBRA).

It's still way, way more than it should be.