I greet the end of the weekend with a special kind of sadness. I have one more week off and then I go back to work on Feb 12 - not because I am recovered enough, but because for the time I have been out, my pay has been docked $9600. That is just lost income. There are hospital bills also. So I will go back to work before my body is ready.
🥺 Can you talk with the hospital’s finance office to see if they’ll reduce your bill? Several years ago I was able to get my large bill cut in half because I wasn’t making enough from my job.
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I am getting hospital bills in drips and drabs. The amount in my post is lost income for being out. I have no idea what the total bill amount from the hospital will add up to - they are billing in increments it seems. Still haven't seen a bill for the big surgery.
I got lucky by going to a "Not For Profit Hospital". I didn't know it ahead of time but it made a huge difference after the bills came in because they were happy to negotiate - and extra lucky because it was the best hospital in the area.
When dealing with medical bills, the worry is real - Good luck Mel.