You are lucky. I just paid $2K on a $17K bill.
It's funny--if you have insurance, they'll write off almost all of that, but if you don't have insurance, they'll stick you with every last penny of it. So the people who can least afford to pay it are the ones they expect to pay the full freight? In what universe did this make any sense?
It's funny--if you have insurance, they'll write off almost all of that, but if you don't have insurance, they'll stick you with every last penny of it. So the people who can least afford to pay it are the ones they expect to pay the full freight? In what universe did this make any sense?
You're welcome. You owe me a lunch.My son was 8 weeks premature. He had a NICU stay at Norman Regional for 21 days. The bill - before insurance adjustments and everything - was a quarter of a million.
We had a $250 co-pay. The more amazing part is that when it was due, they discounted even our co-pay like 40% (I don't exactly remember but it was something like that) because they were running a collections campaign and gave everyone a discount who paid the balance in full. So of the $250k, we paid $50 bucks.
Y'all paid the rest though , because my wife was working for OU at the time and their health plans were self-insurance (administered by BCBS, but it all came out of a state treasury account).
I want to go quietly in my sleep, like my grandpa did. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.I don't even wanna talk about how screwed up the medical billing system is. I hope I am lucky like LoneWolf'49 and just die in my sleep. Quietly. Before I have to have an extended hospital stay.
Glad you are doing better Old Man!
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