Guest guest Posted October 12, 2006 Report Share Posted October 12, 2006 - Totally cross talking here - this part of your post reminded me the one night my husband and I came home from another long drive from the NICU. had been there 6 weeks and our mailbox had a key to the storage bin - and there was our first NICU bill - it was nearly three inches thick of continuous computer paper (this was 1989) ... all those little square stickers people kept peeling off of everything and putting on 5x7 index cards flashed before my mind. I started joking that if insurance was the lottery we won ) The first year was a little over 500,000. is 17 and he's up to about 830,000. Yup, our million dollar baby ) with love, yuka RE: The roller coaster ride The bills are staggering. I remember seeing the hospital bill for my son's first 6 weeks in the NICU--it was $365,000! And that didn't include the delivery and it didn't include any of the doctors evaluations (those were billed separately). Our insurance paid for 100% of their allowed amount (I think they paid around $300,000). After awhile, the bills stop shocking you as much--$32,000 here for a surgery and night in the PICU, $1000 there for a synagys shot (that is given monthly, through RSV season). I keep all of my insurance EOBs for Evan--the stack for just this year is over an inch thick! . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.0.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.2/472 - Release Date: 10/11/06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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