<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 15, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Mike M <<a href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com" class="">meulenms@gmx.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">My wife has cost them a ton of money over the past two years after having complications from having a benign tumor removed. I have a feeling that plays a part it their decision. I think her bill is north of 150K now.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: LucidaGrande; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I started kidney dialysis on 10 March. I am doing haemodialysis at home, so had a month of training before starting in at home.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The bill for the first month was over $120,000. Each time I went to the clinic for 4 hours for training and have dialysis done was $6,976.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now I’m doing it at home, each day I do it is $5,700 - 20 times a month is $114,000, plus about $33,000 for drugs used during dialysis.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of all those vast sums of money, I paid $756 the first month, and $186 the second month. Insurance paid about 10% of the rest of the bill, and the other almost 90% just gets written off.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sheesh!!!!!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Roger</div></body></html>