The Envelope, Please…
This standard white mailer announced that it came from 50% recycled material… how thoughtful. It was thin, with a two small plastic windows, one above the other, announcing the recipient and the sender. The recipient you can guess.
The sender was the twins’ birth hospital.
As you might guess, this was a bill. It is not the first bill we have received; nor will it be the last, I’m sure. But this particular bill was an itemized jobber for hospital services rendered for Doss. So basically it was all the stuff the hospital did for Doss, excluding doctors’ costs.
I was surprised by the pre-insurance total. In fact, stunned would be a fair descriptor.
Would you care to take a guess? Actually, I want you to guess. What’s that you say? Where’s the incentive? Well, let’s make contest out of it.
The person who can get closest without going over wins a new How About Two? t-shirt before they are available for purchase.
Geez, I feel like Bob Barker.
posted by Rob Barron at 6:58 AM
20 Comments:
$246,891.35.
That's my final answer.
No, I would not like to phone a friend, but thank you, Regis.
$75,000 seems "reasonable"
43. Oh, sorry wrong question.
$95,250.00
$147,000.
I have known several people whose children have spent significant time in a NICU and the costs are STAGGERING. I hear comments re: these people like "Well, they have insurance, don't they?" But 3 months in a NICU will run you right up to the limits of your coverage. Such a shame.
I'm gonna say $110,000.
Lets see multiply that by 2 carry the 1...
$126,889.42
I know for our boring 3 day hospital stay alone was 11,000 for just the room and the concrete like bed.
In true Price is Right fashion, I should probably say $1 because I think (hope) other people have overbid. But just to keep it interesting I will guess $30,000.
My bill for my daughter's 3 day long labor and birth was a little over $24,000. I'm guessing little Doss probably cost your insurance company (at least I HOPE it was all covered) to be at least $150,000 considering all the specialists and the move.
Knowing medical expenses these days I'll guess $275,000.
I'm going to say 237,500. My kids had NICU stays as well, and all i can say is thankgod i live in Canada so i never had to worry about the cost
Because I had twins in the NICU and have some idea... I am guess 200,000 ish.. My girls and me were million dollar babies!
I'm going with $201,400
$152,345.12.
Tthat's the number my fingers hit at random and I'm stickin' with it.
Pre-insurance? Just Doss?
$89,995.
Hmmmm....thinking about the bills I've received recently for D's NICU stay....
I'll guesstimate $123,xxx (and I bet that it's going to go higher and higher as more bills trickle into the system...at least, that's what ours did). At last check, our grand total was $87,xxx. I've never been so grateful for health insurance in my life.
Hmmm...I did a wonderful scrapbook page on this. My kids NICU stays were billed at $618,754.58 - but that was 3 years ago, 2 kids, a total of 128 baby-days.
I'm going with $138,252
Medical bills are the bane of my existance. Not only od you have to go through the awful stuff, but then you get the privelage of paying for it as well. I am still paying my cancer bills, and that was almost two years ago.
$240,000? I hope I am way over, but after seeing what mine were, I am not sure.
My youngest son was born at 29 weeks, in the NICU for 3 months. Bills totalled close to 800 grand. This was 26 years ago.
I'm going to take guess and say Doss' bill came to about $245,000 total.
3 months in the nicu, $157,651....
but give The T-shirt to the Squeaker. With Bills like that you need all the shirts you can get.
I am going to guess $412,895... Just a random number, but I remember seeing how high the bill was for my son's delivery -- and that didn't include any NICU time...
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