[blueplum]

of course you’re right. I doubt medicare paid that much, too. But I almost had a heart attack over the heart attack bill until I saw the bottom line. Just kind of hard to digest that 4 hours in ICU, one day for an angioplasty/stent, and 2 days in recovery cost so much nowadays. That’s like, 3 cars or half a house! And I thought the vet was expensive! Two years ago a bill like that would have bankrupted us.

Which makes me wonder, these CV folks are in the hospital a minimum of 10 days for recovery and we’re going on 30 days for some of the others? The cost must be astronomical per patient.

[DoughtyOne]

I'm sure you're right. That kind of a bill would have me
reeling too.

I've known of some hospitals that took losses on delivering
babies, to keep the family business.

Insurance companies will only pay X, when the cost of
deliveries are X+.