So I recently got surgery and during the whole process I was not able to get a total cost. I was told it was too difficult to get since they did not know if anything extra were to happen (emergency situations or if I took longer to recover). Even the week of the procedure, I was told to pay almost 2k but this amount wouldn’t “necessarily pay for the whole procedure”. I check my benefits today and I realize that this surgery was way more expensive than I thought. I wish I could’ve shopped around now because the service I got did not reflect what I paid.
My question is, in the future, what can I do to better financially plan for surgeries? Apparently hospitals don’t give you costs upfront, so how do people budget and shop around in this market?
Submitted April 30, 2021 at 06:21AM by alexandrrrrrro https://ift.tt/3aMhDi7
