12-23-2009, 10:06 PM
mrbigstuff wrote:
Our insurance would have covered just about everything if it wasn't for a complicated birth with a hospital transfer.
That sounds very strange. I will assume that you have checked out all of your options in this regard, but do you have a medical professional (physician, administrator) with you to argue your side? This can be very helpful, although it requires that you have a good relationship with the person or for them to be altruistic enough to fight on your behalf with the ins. co.
My wife handled medical billing for a while, so she knows it fairly well. Had it been a typical birth, we knew how much we were in for. But for all the extra services, those are covered but not as much. Plus the day after she was released she was readmitted via the ER for a CT scan of a possible blood clot in her lung.
bazookaman wrote:
Just tell them it will be a year before they get paid.
With every bill we get, we call up and setup a payment plan. Whatever the longest one they'll give us is... never more than a year.
ztirffritz wrote:
I think that all told so far, my son has cost me just about $400. That includes, the birth, clothes, food, and diapers...oh, and $15,000 for his college fund.
How so? The only thing I can think of is you're counting tax deductions... I don't need any more of those.