Reply #11: Call them NOW [View All]

[Warpy]

and ask about a discount for uninsured people. Most hospitals would rather negotiate than sell the bill for ten cents on the dollar to a collection agency.

Also go over that bill with a fine toothed comb and make sure you got what they said you did.

EKGs aren't cheap, MRIs are at least a thousand a pop, and those docs they called in will cost a bundle, too. If you have a friend in the health care biz, show the bill to him/her and make sure they didn't get cute and unbundle labs to pad the bill.

But get them to negotiate that bill. They know damned full well that most of us can't afford that kind of money, but they always try, anyway.