I am a self-pay patient, and my doctor's office has a contract with the hospital for lap band fills under fluro. It is $150.00 for the hospital portion, and whatever the doctor fee is (usually around $125.00). Well I guess they decided to bill my insurance, which I told the admitting lady that my insurance would not pay. Well to my surprise I received a bill for over 2,700.00 for this procedure. This was down from the over $4,000.00 they wanted to charge. My mom is self pay as well, and she had a fill under fluro about a month before I did. She never received this outrageous bill so I'm going to have to have a nice conversation with the hospital tomorrow. Should be interesting. I'm a little afraid, but I know what we were told by the admitting people. I'm just venting a little tonight. Sorry.

Stay strong and work with them. I think cash pays are usually less then ins so make sure you check with them again. Good luck.

Thank you. I don't know why they filed it on my insurance. I told them up front I was self pay, and all my paperwork had self pay on it. I guess I'll see how it goes in the morning.

Most hospitals file insurance no matter what you tell them. Good luck yelling at them!

Just stick to your guns and remember you catch more bees with honey.....

JJ - hang tough and don't get nasty with them until you have to. My hospital billed everything through my insurance as ancillary which my insurance doesn't cover and I got a big fat bill for over $10k because they didn't put it through right. I will be calling the hospital tomorrow myself. Good luck with getting it all straightened out!

Well that was relatively easy. I called, told her what was going on, and she looked and said okay, I'll do an adjustment on this today. No problems whatsoever (hopefully).