I will be facing a third surgery in the very near future to correct Flatback Syndrome (including having osteotomies), remove my harrington rods and hooks, replace L5-S1 disc and fuse L1-S1 going into my pelvis (fusing sacrum to spine). Currently i am fused from T5-L5 i believe. I have health insurance and with that, our insurance pays 90% and we pay 10%. In order to plan financially for all of this, i wanted to get an idea of what it will cost (assuming no complications). All of the surgeons i've seen have either said it will be one big operation (12+hrs) and 7-10 days in the hospital or a 2-stage operation one week apart where i would be in the hospital the entire time (about 2 weeks). I'm not sure but i might need inpatient rehab afterwards for a couple weeks but that's yet to be determined. I work as an Occupational Therapist and deal with mostly Medicare billing, not private insurance - but that being said, i have no clue how much these things cost so if you have any idea please share them with me! I need to know how many extra weekends i'll need to work before hand so that we'll be able to pay our bills!
THANKS!!!
THANKS!!!
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