my MVD + line of sight injection incl 2.5 days of hospital stay ( 1 day of ICU and the rest was pre-surgery and step down monitoring) was aprx $80K and I had to pay $5K out of pocket
meanwhile the gamma knife procedure was $65K and that I only had to pay $35.00 co-pay..
weird..
NOTE: you can challenge any/all bills esp anything charged to you directly. Nearly all hospitals have a Finance (or accounting or billing) Dept that will assign an advisor or counselor to your case. Further, if 1 Dr is out-of-network you can fight this too esp if all the Drs but one such as the Anesthesiologist were in-network...chances are they didn't ask you to provide your own in-network anesthesiologist. My son was a premie and they tried to pull that on us, but we fought with the insurance company.
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