My husband wants to know what people's ins were charged for the surgery. We are self pay and he thinks we are getting ripped off. I told him to bad....I'm doing it. We have the money and it will save my life!! It will cost us 13,000.

My Insurance was billed about $35,000 for everything, now they only pain around 15,000 as insurance companies never pay the full amount and of course they get away with it..

Dr.'s fee is like $18,000, plus hospital.

Have you thought about going to Mexico? I am paying $4700 for the surgery and $600 for plane tickets for me and my husband.

I know it is a scary thought to leave the country but it is just right over the border and the Doctors in Mexico have done thousands of surgeries compared to the hundreds American Doctors have done.

They said the total billed to insurance (surgeon, hospital, anesthesia) is about 40k.

Just received my bill from Kaiser. $21000.00 and some change. I was lucky and didn't have to pay a dime.

I am self pay and am paying $10,400.00 cash. It is a bit more if you pay with your credit card. My surgery is also outpatient.

My husband wants to know what people's ins were charged for the surgery. We are self pay and he thinks we are getting ripped off. I told him to bad....I'm doing it. We have the money and it will save my life!! It will cost us 13' date='000.

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I just received the benefit statement from my ins company. They paid the doc around $3000 for the procedure. I was shocked.