Content Overview
- Summary
- Ask If You Will Be On "Observation Status"
- Confirm The Identity Of Your In Hospital "Point Person"
- Bring An Advocate
- Set Up An Easy Means Of Communicating With The People Who Want To Know How You're Doing
- Set Up A Means Of Keeping Track Of Services Provided
- You Don't Have To Accept An Assigned Roommate
Entering The Hospital Through The Front Door -- Elective Admission
Set Up A Means Of Keeping Track Of Services Provided
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As you'll see, when you leave the hospital, especially if you pay all or part of the bill, your hospital bill should be checked for errors.
It would be most useful if you could write down each time a doctor visited you, or you received a diagnostic test, or medication -- or even a box of tissues. However, the reality is you probably won't be feeling up to this task while you're in hospital.
Alternatives to consider:
- Your advocate can keep track for you.
- You can leave a clip board by your bed and ask each doctor who visits to sign in each time he or she visits. It may be easier to ask each doctor to leave a calling card on each visit. The nurses and staff can also note drugs, and other services or goods provided. You may be more likely to get your doctor and nurses to agree to a system like this, if you explain that you're going to have to pay all or part of the bill and you're not a Rockefeller. (Some food or other goodies for the doctor and staff can't hurt either.)
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