Surgeon fees vs. hospital fees

[Shinyhappymommy 2]

I was a bit blindsided as we checked into the surgery center and I found out it was going to cost me over 9K just for their part of the surgery. When I originally asked my surgeon the price of the surgery, (I may have asked him his cost) he quoted me 10K. So adding the surgery center to it, the price basically doubled. Am I just naive to not have realized this before hand, or was my surgeon not very forthcoming in not letting me know that the surgery center would be just about as much as his quote to me originally? I had to just put the whole thing out of my mind so I could peacefully go through surgery and healing. Now I'm trying to figure things out.

[VegasGrace 1]

That is an important thing to ask. BUT, they should have told you upfront.

Did he tell you yet about the anesthesiologist fee?

How about meds used?

Insturment fee?

Yep, when I had my very first surgery 15 years ago....my doctor/surgeon was upfront with me. Had me bring in 3 cashier's checks.

1) her fee

2) surgicenter

3) anesthesiologist

Hate this happened to you.

BUYER BEWARE

[Skinny_Jill 36]

My surgeon included all costs in his price. It was $12,900 and that covered everything (except for pregnancy test that was only $10.75).

So sorry this happened.

[juliegeraci 7]

Mine is $15k and only $5k are the surgeons. The rest if for the hospital, etc.

[Ang1982 4]

My surgery was $14000 that I paid directly to my surgeon and he paid out the appropriate people from that amount.

[JaxBandster 11]

My surgeon had everything outlined on a piece of paper and depending on whether you were in the hospital or surgery center.

$5,500 surgeon fee

$8,800 surgery center fee

$250 anesthesiologist

$100 weight loss counselor

$150 nutritionist

Sounds like yours should have been clearer

[Shinyhappymommy 2]

I just dug out my copy of the paperwork that he sent to the insurance and his quote for surgery was just under $3,000 and his assistant surgeon was about $800. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention before because I thought we were already agreed on a price. If those amounts hold true, than we're only about $3000 over the originally thought price, instead of completely doubling it. I guess I just need to hash it out with the office. On top of this, I just found out our tax refund isn't anywhere near as big as I thought it would be. Bummer. That's what was going to pay for this.