Friday, January 15, 2010

Health Insurance

I am so glad that I have good health insurance. I just got a bill for the two weeks at University of New Mexico Hospital, $123k. The rehab hospital was about $10k. For the last several months I have been several bills a week, so I don't have a guess of the total. The bill from UNM is completely covered. If we did not have insurance, I don't know how one could pay a bill like that.

When I had ACL reconstruction, I had 80/20 health insurance. So, I paid 20% of my MRI, ortho clinic visits, and ACL reconstruction surgery. It was doable. I was happy to get a replaced ACL, I had enough to pay the orthopod. I don't have enough to pay 20% of $130+ thousand.

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