Total VSG cost
My wife and I had both had VSG surgery on the same day in Mexico. Surgery, airfare to California (from South Carolina), hotels, etc. cost us about $21,000 for the both us us.
Downside, insurance wouldn't pay a dime of it.
Upside, we're gonna live long enough to pay it off.
I love your upside of it!!! :)
There was a $600 "Program Fee", $600 in-patient deductible, and $35 co-payment for each visit to the doctors, dietician, psych, sleep apnea doctor, etc. (probably around $200). Lucky for me, my surgeon's office told me to go to the Patient Financial office, and I found out I was eligible for some type of supplemental insurance from the state that would cover all of those expenses. Whew! So I paid for gas and valet parking.
I feel so thankful.
Great post, so interesting to see the differences between self pay, different states and different coverages.
I have BCBS of MI and I paid an initial $200 to the weight loss center before I starred my mandatory six month program. I then paid $300 up front before surgery. I have yet to get my bill that insurance covered as I just had my surgery Oct 24!