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Excited Surgery Date Scheduled, however, Needing a Upper Endscopy



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I'm so excited I had an apportionment with my surgery today and I received my surgery date (06/25/15). There is a bunch of things I need to do prior to surgery:


Meet with the Nutritionist


Hospital Seminar


Get upper Endoscopy


Other pre-op labs


I'm a self-pay patient so things are happening pretty fast but it also means that I have to pay first for everything. I'm also doing my surgery out of state (In Alabama) 3 hours away so everything I do need to has to be planned in advance since I live in Georgia. I have everything scheduled except the upper Endoscopy. The surgeon's office suggested their local doctor but I want to know what I'm getting myself into prior to the upper endoscopy in regards to price. Has anyone had to self pay for this procedure? My surgery date is 6/25/15 and I need this done asap...its going to a expense I didn't foresee since its not apart of my WSL self-pay package. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.


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I just got my go pay and the Endoscopy was $625.00 here.

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I had mine in dec I have insurance but I'm in a high deductible plan so I had to to pay about $2,000 in western ny

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I had mine in dec I have insurance but I'm in a high deductible plan so I had to to pay about $2,000 in western ny

wow that's expensive, I'm hoping its not that much for me.

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I have insurance, but I had applied $0 to my OOP, so I had to pay 100% of my EGD.

Surgeon's fee - $175

Hospital fee - $150*

Anesthesologist - ~$600 (waiting for the bill)

The first hospital they scheduled me at was in-network with my insurance, so they were going to have to charge me the contracted rate of ~$600. My surgeon's office moved me over to an out out of network hospital so they could give me a "prompt pay discount" and only charged me $150.

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My daughter gets semi-regular endoscopies and is billed around $5k each, all in, but that is at a surgery center associated with a pediatric hospital.

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