re: How much were you charged to get tubes in you child’s ears?

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Yeah. I understand the charges will vary. But there’s some historical knowledge to billing that can be applied to provide a range assuming normal circumstances. All I wanted.

Friend of mine does healthcare consulting and said your mind would be blown with how absent physicians who own a group practice are in any forecasting, budgeting, etc.

As long as they’re getting paid. They don’t care.

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You have aids?

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, nah, but a very complicated pregnancy with 60 days in thr hospital for my wife and ultimately 70 days in the NICU.

Aids would have been preferable.

Bout tree fiddy

Just had to pay the doctor and the anesthesiologist. Copay They performed it at a hospital that writes off all their facility fees for ordained ministers. Made my life easier

My advice is to return the product and ask for a refund.

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Why do they get tubes in their ears?

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For that warm vintage sound.

And people wonder why the heath care situation in this country is so screwed up.

OP and everyone else in this thread: Too bad you all have jobs and actually work for a living. If you had Medicaid or "Free Care," you could've gotten the procedure for free (to you). No stress. No bills. No nothing.

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Let’s say one cylinder of gas $500
Anesthesiologists and ENT were present for our procedure less than an hour, actually less than half hour. 2 nurses also. Let’s say you pay them each $1000/ hr. We still ain’t even approaching $15,0000. They make a tiny incision and place a little plastic bushing in his ear drum and then give him some drops. Where is all the money going?

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Surgeon fee, anesthesiologist fee
Facility overhead:
- rent, OR room time, scrub tech salary, circulating nurse salary (sometimes two in a room), pre-op/pacu nurses salary, ancillary staff salary to clean/turnover rooms between cases.
Equipment: including cost of medical grade equipment (a racket), sterilizing and costs of disposables

Of course ear tubes may be huge money maker for the facility, tempered by surgeries that don't quite make the same profit.

On and on and on. Pretty much every facility has a cost of Operating room time per x mins.

Also doesn't help that if you have 3 different contracted rates, they charge the highest rate that will cover all 3.

It's sad there's a lack of cost transparency in medicine. There's so many nuances and layers with billing, documentation, and insurance that no wonder you see a shift towards concierge in some specialities.