FOUR CORNERS PROGAM ABC 2 MONDAY NIGHT 8.30
Hi Everyone.I just saw the tail end of an ad for Monday night's Four Corners Program on the ABC , all about 'bill shock' in the medical system,should be interesting! @Janie304 it might help you with y...
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Hi @Josephine66
Try not to worry about it as it probably won't happen! ..... as @lrb_03 said - if you are/have gone public then you shouldn't get any unexpected bills.
When I was diagnosed (Jan 5th this year) all the surgeons were still on holidays until mid January - so I wanted to see the first 'best one' that I could - and get on their list immediately. If I'd gone public, I may not have been able to have the surgeon I chose (if I'd gone 'public' with him, I would have had to wait 3-4 weeks & it would have done my head in!) So I chose to go private for the surgery & there was a $3,500 gap (but the surgery included reconstruction at the time) and I've had numerous other gaps since with other bits, that have roughly added up to about $6,000 out of pocket (which is small compared to some women's! :( ) So I saw him on the 15th Jan, had Sentinel Node Test on the 16th and surgery on the 17th, out of hospital on the 18th. All good. :)
Try not to worry about it as it probably won't happen! ..... as @lrb_03 said - if you are/have gone public then you shouldn't get any unexpected bills.
When I was diagnosed (Jan 5th this year) all the surgeons were still on holidays until mid January - so I wanted to see the first 'best one' that I could - and get on their list immediately. If I'd gone public, I may not have been able to have the surgeon I chose (if I'd gone 'public' with him, I would have had to wait 3-4 weeks & it would have done my head in!) So I chose to go private for the surgery & there was a $3,500 gap (but the surgery included reconstruction at the time) and I've had numerous other gaps since with other bits, that have roughly added up to about $6,000 out of pocket (which is small compared to some women's! :( ) So I saw him on the 15th Jan, had Sentinel Node Test on the 16th and surgery on the 17th, out of hospital on the 18th. All good. :)