Insurers sometimes reject neonatal intensive care costs

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Insurers sometimes reject neonatal intensive care costs

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Expectant parents should make sure neonatal intensive care unit is in-network to

avoid staggering out-of-pocket costs.

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Kaiser Health News

January 4 2011

Many expectant parents are pretty savvy these days about making sure that their

obstetrician and the hospital where they plan to have their baby are in their

health insurance network. Using an out-of-network provider would almost

certainly mean higher out-of-pocket costs: The plan might pay just 60 percent of

charges, for example, instead of 80 percent or more.

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