Injection cost (Zoladex - Xgeva)

[Maludagui]

Hello beautiful ladies. As everyone knows I am from Venezuela. And since I was diagnosed in August 2018, my economy has been in a tailspin. We made a gofundme and managed to pay the hospital more than $ 9000 last year. There are many things I don't know about the American medical system. I have medical insurance. Now I have many doubts. How do Zoladex and Xgeva injections be placed? Today I got a bill from the hospital that says they billed:

- Laboratory $ 2693

- Room Charges. $ 130

- Radiology $ 1334

- Pharmacy. $ 10,800

total $ 14920

insurance paid $ 10,600

my responsability. $ 4200

Talk to Walgreens Prime and inform me that the insurance covered 100% of zoladex and Xgeva.

So .... how does this work ????

The hospital charges me $ 10800 why ??? for giving me the injection. ???

Or any of you how do you receive these injections? They receive them at home and who puts them on ???

How can I minimize my hospital expenses ???

I will read them all and their good advice. Thanks thanks

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I get my xgeva at the cancer center at the same time I got my falsodex injections. I have Medicare and full medicaid so I do not pay a penny but yes American hospitals are known to charge like $100 for a freaking aspirin if they give it to you in the hospital.

No one is allowed to give themselves the injections at home. Do you also get other injections. A nurse or somebody does it. Do they do blood work? All that adds up.

Quite frankly, not even many of us that live in US know how they bill, but my friend whose adult son has a mild case of MS said they give him a tylenol at the hospital when he went for his regular MS steroid injection BEFORE giving him the shot and it turned out that that one tylenol that they gave him they charged like $100. She said he could have taken one before we went for his shot.

Not many of us understand the codes and such but where ever you are going in US for your treatment must have a financial office. Make an appt. with the financial office to understand how you are getting billed and why or what share is your $4,000 coming from?

I am lucky, I Know it. I have Medicare as my primary and then after alot of paperwork, I have full Medicaid as my secondary insurance. Medicare is the medical program you have to go on once you have been collecting social security disability for two years. Medicare expected me to have to pay $2,700 a month until I hit a maximum amount and then it would be free. But because I was in the process of trying to get Full Medicaid as my secondary insurance (a US thing) I was told not to pay it because once I get approved (which I did) Medicaid then went back and paid all my outstanding bills. Even my appt. with my onco Was like $900 and that is like a 15 min. appt. but now that I have both, I do not pay a penny towards any bill.

But it would be best for you to either call the financial office of where ever you are going for treatment and have them explain it to you. Most of us don't understanding it either but they do charge for every little thing, even blood work where they just prick you with a needle.

You go to a hospital for treatment? I would call their financial office. Maybe they can tell/offer you a cheaper way to get it done but none of us are allowed to give it to ourselves although some of the ladies (I am not even sure in US) their primary doctors give them the injections.

It is overpriced. And ask the finance office if there is a cheaper way to avoid having you pay $4,000.

[Maludagui]

Thank you for response. I will check