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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 367066" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>That is insane Sue. We ran into the same thing when my mom was on a ventilator. We could buy most of her feeding and breathing supplies ourselves for so much less than the medical supply companies were billing insurance. Mom was just about to run out of her $1 million cap when she passed away. As it was I finally negotiated with the insurnace company to let me hire our own nurses (which were required because of the ventilator) and pay them out of my pocket and they reimbursed me. We were able to stretch three more years of coverage this way. Instead of paying a nursing agency more than twice what the nurses made, we paid them directly, got better nurses, and mom stayed in her home until the end.</p><p></p><p>Here's another one.....easy child had to go to the hospital last month due to an ovarian cyst. We got the hospital bill for $9,400 not including doctor visits and ultrasounds and cat scans. The contracted price was $1,700. Since we have a deductible of $10,000 per person we had to pay the entire $1,700. But why the huge difference in price? She was in the ER for 16 hours. </p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 367066, member: 59"] That is insane Sue. We ran into the same thing when my mom was on a ventilator. We could buy most of her feeding and breathing supplies ourselves for so much less than the medical supply companies were billing insurance. Mom was just about to run out of her $1 million cap when she passed away. As it was I finally negotiated with the insurnace company to let me hire our own nurses (which were required because of the ventilator) and pay them out of my pocket and they reimbursed me. We were able to stretch three more years of coverage this way. Instead of paying a nursing agency more than twice what the nurses made, we paid them directly, got better nurses, and mom stayed in her home until the end. Here's another one.....easy child had to go to the hospital last month due to an ovarian cyst. We got the hospital bill for $9,400 not including doctor visits and ultrasounds and cat scans. The contracted price was $1,700. Since we have a deductible of $10,000 per person we had to pay the entire $1,700. But why the huge difference in price? She was in the ER for 16 hours. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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