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by kingsloi
1032 days ago
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Exactly the same happened to me & my family, and we've also appeared on NPR for a similar situation: > https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/09/22/1121612... My daughter died. Our story aired a year later. Another year later, so around 2 years after my daughter's death, I received a hospital bill for a little over $3,000, for her initial few weeks of ICU care. I never acknowledged it. I couldn't bring myself to call the hospital to setup a payment plan, say my daughters name in the same sentence as a dollar amount again. We haven't heard a peep since. |
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The closest experience I can think of to this was when I was a sophomore in college in 2006. In short order, I had a seizure, was taken to a local Trauma ICU, and hours later flown to a Level 1 facility in another part of the state.
The hospital where I stayed billed us without issue, but the Trauma center decided it was the right thing to do when it sent the unadjusted bill to me at my college address. Oh, and the medical transport people who flew me around the state of NJ? Nothing.
Just super.
I also could talk about how earlier this year I spent 23 days in the ICU for an infection related to the same condition, and how an event from April-May still isn't settled as far as insurance goes, but I'm stressed enough at this point.
Score 1 for PTSD!
It occurs to me that I've surely met the deductible and OOP limit for the year, so that might explain why we've been so slow to see things get resolved.
To top off this cavalcade of awfulness, the person who hired me into my current job lost her fight with pancreatic cancer last week.
2023 sucks.