Our son and wife had a son that only survived a short time; crushing. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, among the best.
A mothers group made beautiful outfits, we got hold him for a bit...
Im so sorry for the loss of your grand baby. How very heartbreaking.
When you don’t have health insurance (like us), this sort of thing doesn’t happen.
> she owed the insurer over $257,000 for the bills it accidentally covered for Alexandra’s care after Ms. Lane switched health insurers <
So it’s the insurer’s fault. And the lady evidently acted in good faith. Case closed. The lady owes nothing, IMO.
Damn buddy....no words for that.
Sorry for your loss.
I hate to read the words “...a dispute between a large hospital and a large insurer, with the patient stuck in the middle.” At least there is a chance that it can get resolved in the patient’s favor.
The only way it could be worse is if it read “...a dispute between a large hospital and GOVERNMENT PROVIDED HEALTH INSURANCE, with the patient stuck in the middle” in which case you would be stuck in Hell for all eternity.
My wife has done absolutely yeoman’s work the past 30 years fighting the insurance companies for correct payment. She has the patience of Job whereas I explode in a rage at the rank stupidity of all the finger pointing, insane rules and regs, the lack of accountability by anybody and the inability to find anybody who will take ownership to resolve conflicts. There’s little I hate more in the world than dealing with insurance companies.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
So sorry for your loss. I have made some of those bereavement gowns for newborns. Your post reminds me I should do more. I have at least two whole wedding gowns donated to me for that purpose.
It’s for things like this that GoFundMe exists.
America’s health-care system is a frankenstein of crony-capitalism, bloated bureaucracy, massive government intervention based on socialist ideology.
Our daughter had a similar experience. Her health insurance plan paid the doctor for a surgical procedure then mysteriously asked for the payment back from the doctor sticking my daughter for the entire bill and then she was hounded by collection companies. We paid a lawyer several thousand dollars to straighten things out but years later she was still being hounded by collection agencies. After a divorce where her former husband refused to help with co-pays for further medical problems she went through bankruptcy. However recently she received a letter from a collection agency about that original bill. That was quickly resolved when she sent them a copy of her bankruptcy.
Very sorry for loss.
File a suit against the hospital for $257,000, since the baby caught the infection at the hospital.
The baby’s debt. It died with her.
Sounds cold…but it’s the only way out of this.
Obamacare never solved this type of problem, because the entire paradigm of health insurance was not removed from being plans established for employers to all plans being large group plans any individuals can join, no matter whom they may or may not be employed with, and employers merely agreeing, or not, cover a certain dollar amount of whatever health insurance plan the individual was in. Then there would never be any need for individuals to be changing health insurance plans just because they were changing employers.
But, that great idea was never even conceived by those who argued for Obamacare nor most of those who opposed it either. Why? Because most folks could not get their minds out of the idea of employers controlling employees health insurance plans and into the idea of employers only controlling how much of their employees’ health insurance premium cost the employer was willing to cover.
blessings on your son and his wife and you too....so sad....