Hellobee Boards Topic: Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Have you ever taken your LO to the ER? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:08:39 +0000 PrincessBaby on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970714 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:38:47 +0000 PrincessBaby 1970714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @chopsuey: Last year LO had a 104.5 fever and was throwing up tylenol so we went to the ER. They basically gave her a Motrin dose, and waited for her fever to go down. We have great insurance, and still paid several hundred dollars out if pocket, for a single Motrin dose. I swore off the ER unless bones are broken from here on!!! Mrs. High Heels on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970694 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:27:46 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1970694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We've been to the ER, but our bill was $100, which was what we expected! I'm afraid to ask what your bill was! Mrs. Pen on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970692 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:27:15 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1970692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yeah, when he had croup and I thought he couldn't breathe... Well taking him into the cold air really helped by the time we got there, and he only saw a PA, bill was absolutely ridiculous considering they didn't even do anything for him. Mae on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970689 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:25:57 +0000 Mae 1970689@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @yellowbird: :( I'm really glad we had LO this year and not next year. I don't know if we'll have another but if we do we either need to save up a lot of money first or I need to get a job (that has better health coverage than my husband's coverage). cheert16 on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970676 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:19:37 +0000 cheert16 1970676@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Nope! We have a $150 co-pay. We just go to after hours at the Pedi! That was part of the reason we chose the pedi office because of their weekend and after hours! Andrea on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970671 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:17:25 +0000 Andrea 1970671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I think our insurance covered it all! yellowbird on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970659 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:12:49 +0000 yellowbird 1970659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mae: that's the exact insurance I have next year and I work in healthcare!!! It's insane. I already have my 3000 saved for labor and delivery. hilsy85 on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970633 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:01:33 +0000 hilsy85 1970633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes, we only had a $75 copay though. Mae on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970631 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:00:17 +0000 Mae 1970631@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @jetsa: YUP. worst part (IMO) is that they are trying to act like they're doing us a favor. "oh your monthly premiums are going down. YOU'RE WELCOME." GAHHHH. (sorry for the threadjack.) jetsa on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970623 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:58:23 +0000 jetsa 1970623@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mae: oh wow that's ridiculous. Mae on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970620 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:57:32 +0000 Mae 1970620@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @jetsa: oh it gets worse. My husband's work (ironically he works for an insurance company-- so you'd think that they'd offer decent insurance) took away our PPO option so next year we are being forced into a high deductible HSA. Which means no copays and no insurance coverage AT ALL until we meet our 3k deductible. @!#@%%@#%# jetsa on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970616 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:55:05 +0000 jetsa 1970616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mae: urgent care is the same as the ER that's insane! We have a $40 urgent care copay and it jumps to $150 for the ER Mae on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970580 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:41:21 +0000 Mae 1970580@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We took her to urgent care once, which is treated the same by our insurance. The bill was like $1500 I think? But we only had to pay our $150 copay + 10%. I think we ended up paying around 200ish. Mrs. Sunshine on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970576 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:40:09 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 1970576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Never LO but I had to go for the first time ever a few months ago & we just had to pay our $75 co-pay.... mrs. wagon on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970570 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:38:30 +0000 mrs. wagon 1970570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes, once, and I think we just paid our co-pay. We had excellent insurance at the time, but our co-pay was still $150 for the ER. Both our ped and internal medicine practices now have urgent care hours which I totally love, because we had to switch insurance and now ours isn't as good, so no doubt we'd get crazy bills for the ER. lisa1783 on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970475 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 11:11:54 +0000 lisa1783 1970475@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yes, a few times. $200 copay each time and then each bill came out to be $200-$300 each time in addition to the copay. Adira on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970422 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:51:41 +0000 Adira 1970422@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We've taken Xander a bunch! We have a $200 co-pay. :( I forget how much the rest of the bill ends up being. I think our insurance covers about 80%. marionberry on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970414 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:49:11 +0000 marionberry 1970414@https://boards.hellobee.com/ With our insurance we paid $150 copay and 20% of charges. It was a bigger bill but ds had croup and it was a true emergency. yellowbird on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970360 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:31:24 +0000 yellowbird 1970360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Yep, she had a super high fever at 5 months old in the middle of the night. I can't remember the bill being outrageous at all though autumnlove on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970342 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:25:48 +0000 autumnlove 1970342@https://boards.hellobee.com/ No, we haven't yet but LO had a 3 day stay in the hospital and everything was covered. The bill would have been crazy on my old insurance plan! mediagirl on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970341 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:25:16 +0000 mediagirl 1970341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ No. And I never want to have to go to the ER for anything. It is so, so expensive. It's a $150 copay just to walk in the door, I can't imagine the bill later... mrbee on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970338 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:23:52 +0000 mrbee 1970338@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @chopsuey: I think we had a $70 co-pay or so? He got two stitches a few months ago. Oh no, that bill sounds painful!! chopsuey on "Have you ever taken your LO to the ER?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/have-you-ever-taken-your-lo-to-the-er-1#post-1970327 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:20:27 +0000 chopsuey 1970327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Was the bill insane?! I just got our 2nd bill from DD's trip to the ER and omg. She wasn't sick and we saw the doctor for about 2 minutes. Freaking bill is ridiculous.