It appears as if everyone's situation is different, depending on your medical insurance, where you live and what physician(s)/hospital you use. Here are the financal details of my experience having a large AN tumor removed:
My highly experienced surgeon and his very capable female assistant billed my insurance company about $28,000. - total - for a 9 hour, very effective AN removal surgery. While that is
quite reasonable, considering the extensive surgical skills needed, my astute, adult son pointed out that it still comes to
$3,000. per hour I reminded
him that it was well worth it to
me and would be, even if I didn't have any medical insurance. They did a great job.
The anesthesiologist charged about $7,000. and the ICU was $5,000 + meds, per day. A 'regular' room was $3,000 per day, plus meds. I was in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit four days and a 'regular' room for a bit less than a day. My total bill - doctors and hospital + meds and miscellaneous charges was around $90,000. My pre-op tests (MRI, CAT scan, blood tests, primary physician check-up)) ran around $9,000, total. Blue Cross 'discounted' much of that total and paid about half, which the doctors, hospital and labs accepted as payment in full, according to their contract with BC.
With my Blue Cross medical insurance I am only responsible for less than 10% of most of these bills (zero - on some of them once I met my annual deductable). The MRI cost is over $5000.
per scan but BC again 'discounted' some of that and the MRI facility has agreed to take small monthy payments from me to pay off my portion of the bill, (10%) so the financial burden, while unexpected and unwanted, is not
too onerous and makes my annual $2200. premium for my medica over the next year l coverage look like a much better deal than I ever realized. A serious surgery and a hospital stay in ICU will have that effect.
