Chocolate Brownies
Feb 1st, 2007 by Tana
I’m sitting down to pay bills (except that I’m blogging instead). Thursday is the day I usually reconcile our accounts and pay any bills that have rolled in.
Today, I have a pan of dark chocolate brownies sitting next to me as I do the bills. I’m reconciling the insurance statements with the bills we’ve received so far for Joey’s hospitization in December.
Diagnosis: Pyloric stenosis
Hospital: $7540.54
No separate charge for going to the ER. Fee is based on diagnosis only, I believe.
Attending physician: $235
He told us to go to the hospital and then visited us every day
ER physician: $250
Coordinated our care for diagnosis
Radiologist: $118 and $48
Read the x-ray and ultrasound finalizing diagnosis
Surgeon consult: $218
Primary surgeon: $1380
Assisting surgeon: $1380
Anesthesiologist: $780
Follow-up office visit: $76
Grand total: $12,025.54
Number of brownies eaten while adding this up: 2
Of course, these amounts are the billed charges, not the eligible charges as per our insurance. Then our percentage of the eligible charges is less than the portion that the insurance is paying.
Still, it’s a good thing Christmas is a long ways away because there isn’t going to be much extra cash floating around our house for a while (not that there ever is).
Pictures documenting the experience:
At the hospital
The scar