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Re: Specialist in Atlanta or Bend oregon-NOT TRUE ANON!!!!!
From: BJ (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Sep 27 18:59:09 2002
Kim,
Why not just call Dr. R's office and ask these questions directly?
BJ
At Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Kim wrote:
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>Mindy -- Could I ask approximately how much your surgery cost? I'm having
>trouble paying my out of pocket max of $1000. I don't know that I ever
>could have saved 75% of my total cost to have surgery done. Why doesn't Dr.
>R accept insurance? Or why doesn't he require a smaller down payment and a
>financing on the rest? Or am I confusing the issue, and the hospital
>charges, anesthesia, etc. are outside the total he requires the 75% on?
>That would probably be do-able, as long as he would or could work out of a
>hospital covered by your insurance. I'm not trying to be argumentative, so
>please don't take it that way. I'm just really curious. I'm sure at
>sometime in the future I'm going to have to make my own decision about going
>through surgery again, and I know that my dr is not inclined to remove deep
>bowel lesions. So I don't think it would be wise on my part to press him if
>he's uncomfortable with it. Dr. R., from all I've read and heard others
>say, seems to be the best of the best for endo surgery. So I'd like to
>fully understand how the money stuff works. Then all I have to do is figure
>out how to get to the West Coast from the East Coast without an airplane!
>lol!!
>
>Kim
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