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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (186401)	5/10/2006 7:31:57 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

She had premature triplets and had to stay in hospital for 3 or 4 months. The 349k bill was only for the babies. There was another $127k for the mom. BTW, also ask around how much a hospital will charge for an ice pack and even better how often they mistakenly add care that was not rendered to the bill. The bottom line is that the bill you get is often double what it should be so they can knock it down as they see fit (i.e no "discount" if it is a co-payment or if Medicare takes care of it, but big discounts if it is the HMO or you have no insurance). The realistic way of looking at it is that the hospitals and the HMO s are in it together (not surprising since many times they are owned by the same company and other times they have very close relationships). The HMO sends patients over and collects its referral fee. The hospital passes this referral fee to the patient in the form of jacked up bill.