So I open up the BC/BS EOB today from where I went to the ER end of October.
It says:
Hospital Outpatient Services - Charges submitted ,042.35
Medical Services - 1.00
Radiology - .00
Yeah... not going to be many more ER visits for me in the future. OUCH
How much of that is your responsibility Joonie? Isn't it covered?
Yikes!It says I have to pay 2.76. But still just to get an x-ray and 2 shots in the ass, that is a bit much.
But since I went while I had Medicaid still they should cover all of it but . (hoping medicaid will see it as an emergency otherwise I have to pay the 2.76)
Oh be glad you HAD insurance! Mine was appx ,660.When i told my kid what humira costs she about died. meds and doctor visits cost so much, you would think there would be funding for these kinds of sicknesses that disable people.
[QUOTE=joonie]Yeah... not going to be many more ER visits for me in the future.PS That is why I get secretly angry when people post to me to go to the ER. I will definitely have to believe I am dying for sure before I go to the ER !!!!!!!!! Also, I would usually have to take an ambulance as I only have a couple people that can give me a ride and if they are not available .................. Still paying on last ambulance ride - cost over 00.
I am spending the next two days in the cardiology unit at the hospital - outpatient - but will be hooked up to machines for six hours two days straight. I wonder what that will cost me
One time I had a collection agency call for a hospital bill, but I did not receive a bill from the hospital and I did not even know I owed money. Come to find out I only owed like . It was stoopid.
Why get mad, when someone suggests going to the ER? Just says thanks for the suggestion and move on. That is what I do when people suggest it to me. But sometimes there is nothing but going to the ER that can fix ya up, like I have learned the past month.
So... do not get angry... just ponder it and release it.
When I had that heart pain last summer and had an ekg at the ER , I got the bill for the app. hour long visit: ,600.00. How ridiculous. I'm very thankful for my insurance, though, and my heart goes out to those of you without.My heart goes out to you guys across the pond. Everyone in UK grumbles about the National Health Service here but all the Dr visits, appointments, operations and drugs are free.....(the taxes on our wages include compulsory National Insurance which helps pay for the NHS); do you have to pay for children's medi care too?
Wow. When I went to the ER last Nov (in 2006) my bill was 11k. I was there less than 24 hrs (but I was admitted to stay overnight), and had two CT scans....and I know they gave me alot of various medicine....since I passed out and wacked my head hard enough to have a seizure. But still, 11k?? I couldn't BELIEVE It was that high....for less than 24hrs!!