At 11:21 AM 6/26/01, you wrote:
>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
So that was 3 days at $2200US/day, plus the doctor's fee.
-- Ronn! :)
