On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> Those who should know will tell you that the primary reason that new
> mothers (and other patients) are shown the door as quickly as possible
> is the financial one, here in the US where I don't think you can get
> _any_ hospital room for under ten times the price you named, and that
> doesn't even begin to cover the other costs involved other than
> renting a room*. Perhaps Julia could tell us how long she was
> actually in the hospital to give birth to Sam and what the bill came
> to.
I went in for labor & delivery Thursday afternoon.
Sammy was born Friday morning.
We left Sunday afternoon.
The bill from the hospital (and this is separate from the bill from my
doctor, which was paid in advance near the beginning of the pregnancy) was
for a total of over $6500. (I think it was $66xx.xx, but I don't remember
exactly....) I'm not the one dealing with the insurance, so I don't know
how much of that the insurance covered and how much we had to pay, but we
have good insurance.
Julia
