Some basic info first / personal update stuff first before getting to the point of this post.
I started dating a girl a year ago. We're now living together, and engaged to be married on July 24. Super exciting, etc.
Eight days ago, she fell and broke her ankle. As she doesn't have insurance right now (we've been trying to get her on a plan, but her application has been open for months because they're overloaded and we can't actually talk with them to figure out what they still need), I've been trying to determine about how much her bill will run to with:
-Ambulance
-6 hours in the ER
-consultation visits
-one failed attempt at surgery (ankle still too swollen to operate, but required operating room/anaesthetic usage to properly cast her ankle in the meantime).
-one successful surgery to install plates/screws
-followup consultations visits
-casts
And right now, I'm not even considering another surgery to remove plates/screws whenever that will need to be done.
What I'm looking for, is someone who might actually be able to put a figure to any/all of these things so that I can achieve a "maximum possible debt" before anything else. If it's relevant, we live in the Saint Paul, Minnesota metro area and have been going to a Trauma Level 1 hospital.
I started dating a girl a year ago. We're now living together, and engaged to be married on July 24. Super exciting, etc.
Eight days ago, she fell and broke her ankle. As she doesn't have insurance right now (we've been trying to get her on a plan, but her application has been open for months because they're overloaded and we can't actually talk with them to figure out what they still need), I've been trying to determine about how much her bill will run to with:
-Ambulance
-6 hours in the ER
-consultation visits
-one failed attempt at surgery (ankle still too swollen to operate, but required operating room/anaesthetic usage to properly cast her ankle in the meantime).
-one successful surgery to install plates/screws
-followup consultations visits
-casts
And right now, I'm not even considering another surgery to remove plates/screws whenever that will need to be done.
What I'm looking for, is someone who might actually be able to put a figure to any/all of these things so that I can achieve a "maximum possible debt" before anything else. If it's relevant, we live in the Saint Paul, Minnesota metro area and have been going to a Trauma Level 1 hospital.
Speaking to somebody in the billing department of that particular hospital. There are just too many variables to get a reasonable and meaningful range of possible prices here. I'm sure you won't be able to get anything in writing, but explain you just want a verbal range of self-pay prices (even if it has to be for each item separately) so that you can start to figure out and plan for the debt. It's probably "against policy" and you might have to get extra charming
but I think it's your best bet. If you can't do that, possibly the billing department at a similar hospital will help you out since it can't be expected that their price list would be in any way binding for the other hospital. Good luck, and congratulations
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A question about medical costs
- 09/02/2010 02:49:49 PM
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I would suggest
- 09/02/2010 02:57:51 PM
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Re: I would suggest
- 09/02/2010 04:54:47 PM
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well, it'd be hard to say "oh it's usually this" for the whole industry
- 09/02/2010 05:04:47 PM
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But it shouldn't be.
- 09/02/2010 05:30:52 PM
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I don't think less opacity would change the price of the supplies much
- 09/02/2010 07:21:32 PM
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Yup
- 09/02/2010 05:13:02 PM
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Re: Yup
- 09/02/2010 07:19:47 PM
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I was being sarcastic
- 09/02/2010 07:24:28 PM
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the cost structure they use is so insane it would be almost impossible to guess
- 09/02/2010 03:04:09 PM
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Well hindsight is 20/20, but was the ambulance ride truly necessary? 
- 09/02/2010 03:34:39 PM
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- 09/02/2010 03:34:39 PM
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