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I try not to look at them to much they just make me sick!! Our

insurance doesnt pay everything and with the state being so crazy

with us its hard. I cant wait for Eva's benefit in April to see how

much we can pay off. I know was also 8 weeks early in 1995 and

his bill was almost $100,000 for 1 month in the NICU!!

Good luck to all,

Crystal mom to (10), (3), and Eva (18 month CHARGEr)

wife to Dan in Illinois

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> 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 )

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> yuka

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> 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!

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