Had emergency surgery recently. Just got the bill from the hospital. We need sin

[Duchess]

Had emergency surgery recently. Just got the bill from the hospital. I need someone else to pay!

FIXORD for truth.

They just don't get the fact that single payer will do nothing to bring the cost down. In fact, it will do nothing but increase costs.

And that's the crux of the matter. As with everything else in life for a bloodsucking leech of a DUmmie.

[ConservativeandProud]

I don't believe in any sort of reform that isn't immediate. I think that's just another way of saying "It Ain't Happenin"

[zeitgeist]

I had three miscarriages between my first two children.  All a year apart.  I had to have a D&C with the 2nd one.  I was passing blood clots the size of liver and had to have an emergency D&C.  It was very traumatic because a week before I saw the baby on U/S, you could see the heartbeat and the little arms and legs.    

Yup Beg, the lack of concern for the loss of the child but concern for the cost of the procedure is what really jumped out at me.   Cold is what I would call it.
 

[soleil]

Sometimes words fail me

Missed abortion?  I have been told that sometimes the D&C was a convenient way to bill for an actual abortion an insurance wouldn't cover or which was at the time illegal.  Anyone know if that is right? 

Then too it always costs more to work on the plumbing when it is burried inside just ask any plumber.

It can be called a missed abortion, a spontaneous abortion (just another term for miscarriage often used on the medical charts).

[Duchess]

Thunley, we had a woman at work that was hospitalized for 6 weeks in a physic ward.  Her insurance costs were so high the company had to find another provider.  The new company charged 1/4 more then the old one.

Now take my daughter, she gets some kind of assistance as she can not work.  Her week in CCU at one hospital in a coma, her transfer to a rehab wing of another hospital and one week of therapy and now she is back in CCU,  they were so anxious to get her up and around that now she may not make it.  The insurence Companys are sending people home from operations just hours after invasive surgery. 

The cost to keep her alive is staggering, she has again drained the blood bank.

Had her husband not have had insurence the hospital would have sent her home to die as has happend in the past with no insurence.  This time I do not think she is going to rally, her body has taken such a beating from past medical emergencys I am amazed she has made it this far.

Have you noticed that SIDS was almost unheard of when Hospitals kept mothers and their new born babys in the hospital for 5 days following delivery ?

We hear of Hospital contacted infections yet never think that the infection may not have occured had the patient stayed an extra day in the hospital.

I am rambeling here, upset and angry, the hospital she was in is top notch and has more then adaquit care for those needing therapy. She had 4 doctors that were treating her, she was getting better. Why not keep her where she was instead of getting 4 new doctors that had never seen or treated her before.

Sorry Thunderly, I am becoming unhinged at this point, my heart skips a beat every time the phone rings.




 

Prayers for your daughter and for you Vesta.

[MrsSmith]

That is correct.  I do not believe that practice is done much anymore, because legal abortions are available.  However, if abortion becomes illegal, it will start again.  And don't forget that a catholic heath care institutions could revenue off of a procedure that if called by another name is not allowed to be performed.

A Catholic owned hospital would not perform a D&C on a woman that registers "pregnant" on a pregnancy test.  The hormone level would have to drop to zero, or very close...or the woman would have to be hemorrhaging to the point of bleeding to death...before the D&C could be done.  

This sounds like a retained fetus...the baby is dead, but the uterus does not expel it.   This can usually be taken care of with medications, like the abortion pill.  

The OP is very misleading in that this is very rarely "emergency" surgery.  The only reason it would be an emergency would be if she is bleeding heavily...otherwise, the fetus is sterile and should not cause any infection...my doctor actually told me that it would act like an IUD and prevent me from becoming pregnant if I wanted to just leave it alone.

[chitownchica]

I had what was termed a D&C last year and I wasn't even pregnant. My sister-in-law has had them due to miscarriages.

[Boudicca]

Vesta, my very best wishes that your dear daughter will recover.  Knowing one is powerless and the outcome is out of one's hands is very hard, every time it happens.

As for D&C's, I had one half a decade ago, to control dysfunctional bleeding.  It worked for a few years, but eventually I had to have a different procedure.  My doctor said D&C's weren't performed very much any more?  Seems like quite a few women still have them though.

This woman from the DUmpster should just be glad she has insurance and quite likely a very small co-pay.

[chitownchica]

Vesta- prayers for your daughter.

[BEG]

Vesta, my very best wishes that your dear daughter will recover.  Knowing one is powerless and the outcome is out of one's hands is very hard, every time it happens.

As for D&C's, I had one half a decade ago, to control dysfunctional bleeding.  It worked for a few years, but eventually I had to have a different procedure.  My doctor said D&C's weren't performed very much any more?  Seems like quite a few women still have them though.

This woman from the DUmpster should just be glad she has insurance and quite likely a very small co-pay.

was it an edometrial ablation?  I had one about 7 years ago.

[TheSarge]

This DUmmie got a procedure that under Obamacare she would probably have to wait six months to get...that is if she was approved for it to begin with.

[PatriotGame]

Coventina  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Wed May-19-10 10:28 AM
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Had emergency surgery recently. Just got the bill from the hospital. We need single payer!

I would imagine the cost of removing a liberal's square head from their round rectum would be rather expensive.

[TheSarge]

I would imagine the cost of removing a liberal's square head from their round rectum would be rather expensive.

Hi 5

[MrsSmith]

I would imagine the cost of removing a liberal's square head from their round rectum would be rather expensive.

[BlueStateSaint]

I would imagine the cost of removing a liberal's square head from their round rectum would be rather expensive.

It all depends--do you want to save the patient?

[Ralph Wiggum]

Coventina  (1000+ posts)
Wed May-19-10 10:28 AM
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Had emergency surgery recently. Just got the bill from the hospital. We need the government or anyone but me to pay for it!!!!!

Fixed for truth.

[Celtic Rose]

I recently had to go the ER, and there has been some confusion on the part of the billing department.  I recently got a bill for more than $1,200 that says "we understand that you do not have insurance..."  The bill says that if I am willing to pay upon receipt of the bill they will waive 75% of the charges.  I imagine that if that were too much, they would be willing to work with you for an installment payment plan. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

I recently had to go the ER, and there has been some confusion on the part of the billing department.  I recently got a bill for more than $1,200 that says "we understand that you do not have insurance..."  The bill says that if I am willing to pay upon receipt of the bill they will waive 75% of the charges.  I imagine that if that were too much, they would be willing to work with you for an installment payment plan. 

Hospitals & clinics are very cooperative when it comes to making payment arrangements.  Yet the DUmmies & libs only highlight the extreme cases where things get messed up.

[thundley4]

Hospitals & clinics are very cooperative when it comes to making payment arrangements.  Yet the DUmmies & libs only highlight the extreme cases where things get messed up.

Things usually get messed up when the DUmmies ignore their bills until it 's sent to collections.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Things usually get messed up when the DUmmies ignore their bills until it 's sent to collections.

And when it gets to collections, they run to the DUmp and bitch about it and omit important facts.

[Boudicca]

was it an edometrial ablation?  I had one about 7 years ago.

You nailed it.  The gyn got p'o'd at me calling 2 1/2 month long bleeding episodes "my period"; she said it was dysfunctional uterine bleeding.  I needed a transfusion of 1g of iron to get my ferritin levels to low normal and felt like absolute shit for sitting in a cancer treatment center with those getting life-saving (I hope) cancer IV treatments.  Anyway, the gyn doc ended up performing what she termed a cyroablation 2 years ago and it worked like a charm.
I always tell women it's no use being bashful about this because had I let my bleeding and anemia proceed I'd likely be dead by now.  Apologies to the men in this thread, but they also probably need to be aware of how ingrained female modesty can be a killer, even in this day and age and this country.

[AllosaursRus]

When I came down with pancreatitus I had to be admitted thru the E-room. It was $600 just to walk thru the door. Haven't received all my expenses yet but $11,000 is pretty much a drop in the bucket. My share looks like it will be somewhere around 4 grand.

"Toots" was having female problems when we were married just 3 years. Her Doc prescribed a DNC. Turns out she was pregnant and the DNC caused the miscarriage.

We should have known the guy was a quack! He was cooking sauerkraut in his lab! We were young and dumb! Should have sued the hell out of him and been set for life! Isn't that how they do it now?

[BEG]

You nailed it.  The gyn got p'o'd at me calling 2 1/2 month long bleeding episodes "my period"; she said it was dysfunctional uterine bleeding.  I needed a transfusion of 1g of iron to get my ferritin levels to low normal and felt like absolute shit for sitting in a cancer treatment center with those getting life-saving (I hope) cancer IV treatments.  Anyway, the gyn doc ended up performing what she termed a cyroablation 2 years ago and it worked like a charm.
I always tell women it's no use being bashful about this because had I let my bleeding and anemia proceed I'd likely be dead by now.  Apologies to the men in this thread, but they also probably need to be aware of how ingrained female modesty can be a killer, even in this day and age and this country.

My apologize to the men in this forum.... 

Wow 2 1/2 months?  That is crazy.  I had periods that lasted about three weeks and were so heavy it was insane.  My OB/GYN (he also delivered my last child) said that life is too short to be missing out on things because of a heavy period and he was right.  My procedure was most likely a little different than yours as there was an extra step that was quite painful.  Not too long after I had mine done they changed the way they did it.  I still have a period (which happens with some women), he told me he could do it again but it is SO much better than it was before that I'm not going to bother.  It lasts two days (three days TOPS) and is so light that I hardly even notice.  I am so glad I had it done.

[AllosaursRus]

My apologize to the men in this forum.... 

Wow 2 1/2 months?  That is crazy.  I had periods that lasted about three weeks and were so heavy it was insane.  My OB/GYN (he also delivered my last child) said that life is too short to be missing out on things because of a heavy period and he was right.  My procedure was most likely a little different than yours as there was an extra step that was quite painful.  Not too long after I had mine done they changed the way they did it.  I still have a period (which happens with some women), he told me he could do it again but it is SO much better than it was before that I'm not going to bother.  It lasts two days (three days TOPS) and is so light that I hardly even notice.  I am so glad I had it done.

More info than I needed to know! Heh, heh!

Toots was having both, during her bout with the Quack. She would stop then start. Come to find out, if he had realized she was pregnant, we might have saved a child! It was a boy, damn it! I'd rather have not known!

She has always had probs that way. She finally had to have a remodel. Wish it had been different, but I'd rather have my life with her than a bunch a screamin' kids. (wink, wink)

Damn I luv that woman!

Don't tell her......... I have to keep her guessin' doncha know. It's what keeps it new!