Unbelievable !!!! $50.000!!!!

[Aquajog]

Just recieved my hospital statement from Medicare .. Hospital bill alone .. Hospital billed $50,000 for my sleeve surgery . Medicare approved $10.000.. Hospital must except that .. My surgeons bill was another $10,000.

[Ann2]

Those "bills" are just so much baloney. They are "rack rates" that no insurance company or insured person pays.

However, if you did not have insurance and had this surgery without pre-negotiating the price, it is likely this is the bill you would receive. This the starting place for negotiating what you will really pay. The unsophisticated really think they're supposed to pay this. And some poor suckers spend the rest of their lives trying to pay off / pay down the amounts. It's a crime what goes on with hospital pricing.

This will be changing in the future. Consumers simply will not stand for this baloney.

[Kathysangels]

My total bill for all was 63,000 at the Cleveland Clinic. Thankfully Medicare paid the first part, and my husbands' insurance paid the other 20%. I think our part was under 500.00. It is hard to understand that they can do these in Mexico for 10,000 and we pay this much? However, mine was done at the Cleveland Clinic and maybe you are paying for the name as well?

Kathy

[secretblonde]

Mexico.....Under 5000....... wouldn't do it anywhere else

[Time2Trim]

I would say Mexico is the way to go to. However, I did the Mexico away and had complications as the doctor nicked my spleen and now I have $100,000 of hospital bills from emergency rooms, CT scans, x-rays, etc. and now I'm stressing. Much less my small town hospital having to beg the larger city hospital to take me because I did my procedure in Mexico. Turned down by several hospitals before one took me. Aquajog, we'll survive!

[sraebaer]

I was self-pay, $14,000 total in Missouri. That included everything before surgery and follow-up visits. Sounds like overbilling the insurance company to me!

[Aquajog]

I had double coverage so only had to pay my doctor's program fee.. Hospital had to accept what Medicare approved amount . My point was the difference between the "hospital bill" and amount insurance approves and pays . I am thankful as a retiree to have good health coverage .

[BillyJ]

I self paid $14,500. My contract said the hospital part was $8500. I later received a bill showing that the price was $70,000 and the negotiated price was $8500 but they wanted an additional $832. I contacted them and said I had a signed contract and they would not get a penny more. I also requested a paid in full statement which they complied. The $70,000 shocked me. That much for a 3 day stay. It is a racket.

[joseph0004]

Thanks

[joseph0004]

It's huge amount.