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I'm so sorry. I've had to deal with that twice now. And I'm not sure why it was more expensive the second time when I wasn't even in the hospital overnight. But I'd rather just pay the bills and never see them again than try to put up a big stink

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. My 1 m/c cost me more than my two csections (out of pocket) combined. It's not fair and it definitely sucks.

@mrskansas: I'm so sorry you are dealing with this. Do you have a PPO or something similar? I have really been wanting to get into a PPO so I can have free selection of doctors, but the bills I know I would receive are just more than I want to budget for. I have an HMO where my doctor choice is limited, but I really never pay more than $10 or $40 for anything. I hope you can find a better insurance coverage that helps you out!

@agold: That's a really good point!! We are with a PPO, which probably explains our experience.

@littlejoy: My sister paid over $6K to deliver a baby at the same hospital I did, and I paid $0. We have the same pediatrician for our girls and a hospital visit for stitches for my niece cost close to $1300 when it was all done, and it would have cost me $50 total. So I'm jealous of a lot of her PPO benefits, but when it comes down to it, I just can't justify moving out of my HMO at this point despite the things I don't like about it.

@mrskansas: ask your hospital about it!

Yes my 2 miscarriages were expensive and all I had was monitoring and betas. I'm sorry. It literally adds insult to injury.

@agold: Your out of network ER shouldn't be charged as out of network. When you have an emergency, that's usually paid at an in-network rate. I feel like it's worth fighting for, but I completely understand why you wouldn't want to. I've unfortunately had 4 miscarriages, 2 which required surgery, and it was so painful seeing those bills for what should have been live births, but instead were for missed miscarriages.