The bill due for the whole cancer treatment came in:

[TPC]

All the treatments, chemo, Drs, hospitals, tests, MRI's surgeries and a dozen other things came out to a shade over one million.
Final bill just rolled in and added to an almost 4"stack that was all picked up by my insurance and the drug maker. This because I was their Guinea pig. The only payment required:

I got billed for six bucks:

 

[Kenny D]

Wow.... good for you!!

 

[t&y]

We can start a Gofundme page if you need it

Glad that's all it was. You've been dealing with enough as it is.:thumbsup

 

[outboardrick]

We can start a Gofundme page if you need it

Glad that's all it was. You've been dealing with enough as it is.:thumbsup

I'm in for at least a buck fity

 

[Member: 71]

All the treatments, chemo, Drs, hospitals, tests, MRI's surgeries and a dozen other things came out to a shade over one million.
Final bill just rolled in and added to an almost 4"stack that was all picked up by my insurance and the drug maker. This because I was their Guinea pig. The only payment required:

I got billed for six bucks:
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Followed your thread through the ups and downs. Glad you won:thumbup:

I know several people who would of gladly have paid that million to beat it. F-Cancer.

 

[crzy2bealive]

Do you have Obamacare?

 

[rush1]

Congratulations on you new life make yourself proud of it, I've lost too many close friends and relatives to effing cancer :thumbup:

 

[GRADS]

ObamaCare.:thumbsup

 

[76 Southwind]

Glad it worked out for you !!!!

 

[was thatguy]

Sounds about right.
Debs averages about 1.3 million a year. (4k deductible)

 

[Willie B]

...lotta dough... I think I'm at about 250 K for my broken neck deal...

 

[TPC]

...lotta dough... I think I'm at about 250 K for my broken neck deal...

Glad you made it Willie. :thumbup:
That must have been painfull.

 

[dezertrider]

I hate these stupid bills. Last time I was at my Doctor I asked them to please let me pay for everything now. I don't want a $19 bill mailed to me.

 

[djunkie]

I stopped adding mine up at $500k. Luckily my insurance covered 100% of everything. That chemo is ridiculously expensive.

 

[was thatguy]

I stopped adding mine up at $500k. Luckily my insurance covered 100% of everything. That chemo is ridiculously expensive.

That ain't no lie.

Not sure which one it is (Deb gets 3 different ones) but the one bag is like $80K.

The shocking part is when I look at the network discount.
If Blue Shield is billed say $150K, the "network discount" knocks well over 65% off of that usually...sometimes much more.

 

[djunkie]

That ain't no lie.

Not sure which one it is (Deb gets 3 different ones) but the one bag is like $80K.

The shocking part is when I look at the network discount.
If Blue Shield is billed say $150K, the "network discount" knocks well over 65% off of that usually...sometimes much more.

I was getting 3 different ones as well. I think it was the Cisplatin that was the crazy expensive one. I hope you guys are doing ok. Your wife has been through so much.

 

[TPC]

I stopped adding mine up at $500k. Luckily my insurance covered 100% of everything. That chemo is ridiculously expensive.

That ain't no lie.

Not sure which one it is (Deb gets 3 different ones) but the one bag is like $80K.

The shocking part is when I look at the network discount.
If Blue Shield is billed say $150K, the "network discount" knocks well over 65% off of that usually...sometimes much more.

I was getting 3 different ones as well. I think it was the Cisplatin that was the crazy expensive one. I hope you guys are doing ok. Your wife has been through so much.

One chemo alone was $120.000 just for the drug.
I had 5 different Chemos.
12 visits to get them infused was a fortune.
The 2 surgeries were almost $400K.
7 day Hospital stay
Oncologist bills.
Radiology.
And that's all after the preliminary diagnosis and all the routines they run you through before treatment even starts.
Those bills were near $80K.
Plus other intangibles.

 

[BoatCop]

My little heart attack last year came in a little over $100K. My share was around $5,000.

Half of that was a 3 block ambulance ride to the hospital and the helo flight to Havasu.

 

[wishiknew]

My little heart attack last year came in a little over $100K. My share was around $5,000.

Half of that was a 3 block ambulance ride to the hospital and the helo flight to Havasu.

Mine was only 121 K and my wife drove me to havasu hospital I must say that was a 48 hr stay and very impressed

 

[was thatguy]

One chemo alone was $120.000 just for the drug.
I had 5 different Chemos.
12 visits to get them infused was a fortune.
The 2 surgeries were almost $400K.
7 day Hospital stay
Oncologist bills.
Radiology.
And that's all after the preliminary diagnosis and all the routines they run you through before treatment even starts.
Those bills were near $80K.
Plus other intangibles.

How is the prognosis at this point?

 

[TPC]

How is the prognosis at this point?

One Year Four months no cancer.
In January completed extensive tests.
All clean.

Scariest thing I ever encountered.
I resolved myself to death and came to peace with it, it was the thought of not being there for the kids that really ate at me.
They'd got over it when those trust fund checks started arriving though.

Only advice I can give anyone is if cancer hits don't buy into any one doctors sales pitch.
Consider all treatments, ignore the snake oil people that pop up, beware of radiation happy treatments, and absolutely study and find the latest and greatest treatments.
Don't let anyone tell you HMO insurance will pay for the best treatments because it won't and that's that.

 

[DLow]

One Year Four months no cancer.
In January completed extensive tests.
All clean.

Scariest thing I ever encountered.
I resolved myself to death and came to peace with it, it was the thought of not being there for the kids that really ate at me.
They'd got over it when those trust fund checks started arriving though.

Only advice I can give anyone is if cancer hits don't buy into any one doctors sales pitch.
Consider all treatments, ignore the snake oil people that pop up, beware of radiation happy treatments, and absolutely study and find the latest and greatest treatments.
Don't let anyone tell you HMO insurance will pay for the best treatments because it won't and that's that.

Solid, solid advice.
Dr.s are like mechanics... Some stay on top of their game young or old, some just ride along sitting back on their "years of experience" or degrees from "I payed too much University".

Congrats on 16 months CA free and thank you for being the test bed for a cancer treatment that may save many lives in the future. [emoji106]

 

[was thatguy]

One Year Four months no cancer.
In January completed extensive tests.
All clean.

Scariest thing I ever encountered.
I resolved myself to death and came to peace with it, it was the thought of not being there for the kids that really ate at me.
They'd got over it when those trust fund checks started arriving though.

Only advice I can give anyone is if cancer hits don't buy into any one doctors sales pitch.
Consider all treatments, ignore the snake oil people that pop up, beware of radiation happy treatments, and absolutely study and find the latest and greatest treatments.
Don't let anyone tell you HMO insurance will pay for the best treatments because it won't and that's that.

That's awesome!

Your advice is spot on.

For a decade I complained about paying those premiums for our individual blue shield PPO...but as it turns out that's why Deb is alive.

The advice I got on here was solid.
She's in UC David cancer center now, but Stanford was the life saver hands down.

Her surgeon in Redding freaked out when I called him a year and a half ago when she was real bad...he couldn't believe the inaction taking place at the Redding oncology center.
I remember driving to Stanford for the initial visit just telling her over and over "hang on, don't die, we're almost there"...

She was taking 60 mil oxy's like Candy and still crying from the pain.
The doctor at Stanford was in shock when she saw her. She also could not fathom that she had been allowed to slip so far waiting FOREVER to start her chemo.

They had her in the chair the next morning. 48 hours later she had done a 180* turn around for the better.

DONT FUCK AROUND...maximize every resource as quickly as possible.

 

[djunkie]

That's awesome!

Your advice is spot on.

For a decade I complained about paying those premiums for our individual blue shield PPO...but as it turns out that's why Deb is alive.

The advice I got on here was solid.
She's in UC David cancer center now, but Stanford was the life saver hands down.

Her surgeon in Redding freaked out when I called him a year and a half ago when she was real bad...he couldn't believe the inaction taking place at the Redding oncology center.
I remember driving to Stanford for the initial visit just telling her over and over "hang on, don't die, we're almost there"...

She was taking 60 mil oxy's like Candy and still crying from the pain.
The doctor at Stanford was in shock when she saw her. She also could not fathom that she had been allowed to slip so far waiting FOREVER to start her chemo.

They had her in the chair the next morning. 48 hours later she had done a 180* turn around for the better.

DONT FUCK AROUND...maximize every resource as quickly as possible.

I couldn't believe how fast the chemo starts working. I was in probably the worst pain I've ever felt going into my treatment. Even on pain meds it was excruciating. By the end of the first week of chemo all my pain was gone and my intestinal issues went away. Amazing stuff.

 

[was thatguy]

I couldn't believe how fast the chemo starts working. I was in probably the worst pain I've ever felt going into my treatment. Even on pain meds it was excruciating. By the end of the first week of chemo all my pain was gone and my intestinal issues went away. Amazing stuff.

Right?

It is amazing.
The first go round wasn't as pronounced with Deb, but the second time (when I took her to Stanford) it was like BAMMMM!

They started it out real slow and almost immediately the cancer cells began "blowing up" to the point that they admitted her to the ER because the blown up cells were threatening to plug up her kidneys or whatever.
They said it was like the second time they'd seen that happen, but she was so far advanced they were watching and ready for it.
It took 12 hours to get the first bag in...now it takes 1 hour for the same bag.

The advances in chemo and treatment of the biggies like breast, prostate, colon and other cancers is simply astounding.

Deb also does a bag of Herceptin once every 3 weeks. This is due to her cancer being HER2 positive. Just 15 years or so ago this would dictate a 6 month life span...now, it's manageable.