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In reply to the discussion: My Hospital Bill was $119,000 for 5 days [View all]Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)I just spend three weeks taking care of my sister after gallbladder removal down in Texas.
She is uninsured and unemployed. Even though it was an kind of emergency, she had to wait to find a charity hospital who would take her on. She found one who would do the surgery for $11,000 (that is the current standard rate) and she qualified for a in-house discount. Her cost: $4000. Unemployed and uninsured, she still has to come up with 4k. Did you have laproscopic surgery or were you cut open? My sister had the laproscopic done and she was given the boot at the end of the day, even though she was kind of struggling post-op.
What you experienced was a hospital trying to pad their bill -- this is usually done to try and recover the cost of the uninsured/under insured/delinquent in payment clients who come through their doors.