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Originally Posted by Rose Ann Vinci Igoe
I think you are right.... I will call Mayo and see what they have for transportation.... my surgery is 7 days or more in hospital, and a 3 l/2 hr drive one way. This can not be the first time esp here in the villages, so the answer is out there... and $400 round trip by bus is way crazy.
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Personal experience at the Villages Hospital. Like a low quality very expensive hotel they have a check out time or you get billed for another day. The doctor came around early in the morning and told me I could go home that day. I told all the hospital people to prepare the bill etc. Before they could bill my insurance, I walked up to the desk and told them I was leaving. Amusing, I had a follow up with one of the doctors and she spent most of my visit lecturing me about how much extra paperwork she had to do because I left.
I politely did not say so you missed padding the bill for yet another day. Aside, it was covered by insurance. I don't recall my copay. I do recall the amount billed for five days was roughly 50,000. I think the insurance paid them roughly half that and that was accepted as payment in full.