Another thing to watch for on self-pay at a US hospital: some states do not restrict the hospital's ability to come after a self-pay patient for more than the pre-adjusted fees they'd charge a insurance patient. Depending on the state, it can be legal to take a procedure that would be nominally $100k for an insurance patient, which would be discounted by the insurance to some fraction of the $100k, and charge more than $100k for a self-pay patient.
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Laura - L5S1 Charitee
C5/6 and 6/7 Prodisc C
Facet problems L4-S1
General joint hypermobility
Jim - C4/5, C5/6, L4/5 disk bulges and facet damage, L4/5 disk tears, currently using regenerative medicine to address
"There are many Annapurnas in the lives of men" Maurice Herzog
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