Got a letter from school telling me that I'm not a candidate for their transfer program. Even though I've been working on making the transfer for like the past year or so. I then got a nice email from the coop I was going to be working with this summer telling me if I'm not reinstated in the next week that they'll have to go with another student for the course of the next 4 years.
This is on top of my recent emergency hospital bills which ended up being over 8k (no insurance). What a shit day.
What was your hospital visit? Was it minor/major, as you may not have to pay the full amount depending on what was going on. Each hospital should have some kind of finance/welfare person to help patients with their bills.
Hospitals charge rates way higher than what the actually cost of the stay is. This bill (say 10k) gets sent to the insurance/medicare/etc. They have people look over the charges and decide what the actually/realistic cost of the stay/procedure was. Say they decided it was only worth 2k. They pay whatever percentage (say 90) and the patient is left with the 10 percent of the 2 k.
In your situation, you don't have any insurance, but you shouldn't have to pay more than what medicare would have paid. See someone in the finance department and ask to pay the medicare rate. Assuming the 8k is the jacked up price, you should get a reduction in price. If not, they should be able to put you on a payment plan that doesn't break the bank.
This is all assuming you live in the US and go to a pretty normal hospital
I contacted their department and I'd have to make 350% below the poverty level to qualify for reduced payment. I went to a county hospital knowing that they get federal funding and can't refuse treatment. I went in for what I thought was serious enough to go at 3:30 in the am. I'm still having issues related to whatever happened one of the doctors thinks it might be caused by pulminary fibrosis or an embolism.
I had a lot of blood taken, and lots of xray's, ct, stereo stenography which seemed to cost the most.
All they did was give me a prescription for tramadol and an anxiety medication while they wait for results from india which takes several weeks.
Also talk with my school counselor about why I was kicked out of the transfer program. They weren't aware of the situation so they are gonna take it up with the dean of the engineering school I'm trying to get into and see if they can't work it out. Just when I thought things were turning around in my life, I get a giant curveball.
