Just signed up to seek more advice and insight to those who are traveling down the same road as myself. I wish everyone well and good luck in your surgery!

Welcome, Stonecutter! When did you have your surgery?

Good Luck to you too, Stonecutter. Have a surgery date yet or just gathering information?

Was set for Monday but the hospital canceled the procedure...gotta go find a new doctor and hospital ....really depressing.

Welcome! Was there a specific reason for them canceling your surgery?

They werent going to make enough money on it...the product I need will cost roughly 10gs a day and insurance said ok and will pay what the contract said which is 2 gs....they are refusing to take a loss on this so they canceled...supposedly my insurance says they cannot do this. they are under contract but who knows.

That is so strange. My actual surgery was $32,000 not including surgeon and anesthesia dr charges. Insurance only paid about $19,500 to the hospital because they are a preferred provider.

That situation seems unusual. Did insurance say if you go to a different dr do you have to start the while process over?

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Wow, things are very different in Australia. For the same surgery in total is between 15-20 thousand dollars max. My private health insurance paid my hospital costs 2 x nights at private hospital and I paid my gap about 6500 for surgeon and anaesthetist.

Hi stonecutter, all the best. I'm just getting started, but I have found this to be a great forum! Chin up, believe it or not you are ment to be exactly where you are exactly right now for what ever reason is not yet known:)( maybe I've read to many fortune cookies )

Welcome to the group. I think you'll find lots of info here

As for the surgery cancellation: I'm speechless. Simply speechless.

thanks:) more fortune cookie wisdom: Sometimes in speechlessness there is silence...and in silence there we find our answers;) be silent and speechless and be well with it if even for a minute.

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In retrospect, the insurance wrote off the difference because the hospital was a preferred provider. I didn't have to pay anything which was a blessing. Since I had reached my max deductible for the year. I can't imagine how hard it would be to pay out of pocket.