Anesthesia Cost - Buyer Experiences and Price Information

3 hours of surgery, no overnight stay. how come I needed two anesthesia doctors. and how could anyone charge over 17K for 3 hours.

The bill is actually four pages long, the above items are the questionable charges that are missing cpt codes. The procedure was a simple 15 minute upper GI. The patient is in good health, the procedure was scheduled and performed in a Gastroenterology facility remote from a hospital.
Dantrolene Sodium 20mg $38.75 (missing code)
Anesthesia tray $250.00 (missing code)
Canister, Nondisposable, used with suction $16.00 (missing code)
Portable Oxygen Cylinder $32.00 (missing code)
Suction Machine $32.00 (missing code)
Oxygen $69.15 (missing code)
IV Pole $9.00 (missing code)

We are uninsured wife needed operation. We asked and received Charity Care. Gave 5-Star for Hospital and Staff for care/Services. Cost across America NOT set- ask for Discount always.

Had retina surgery Sept 2015 and General Anesthesia was billed by Sheridan Corp using code for Retina surgery. Is this even legal? Tried to fight it, They would not correct it, so I paid the Anesthesia Dr the same $$ as the Retina Surgeon. Feels like fraud to me. Husband had hernia op and nurse anesthetist was 650.00. His op was 1hr 1/2. Mine 1hr 3/4 time? He was in out patient center I was outpatient hospital.

Got a shot in my thumb to numb the area before the pin could be inserted.

I was charged for the doctor to administer the injection ($2,240.00) and separately for the CRNA to monitor me during the procedure ($2,226.00). for a total of $4,446.00 for a one hour surgery. The surgeon charged me less. And this does not include the hospital costs. Outrageous!!! I will never use them again!!!

I am getting a bill from an anesthesiologist provider for a routine endoscopy I had in my gastro's office which are two charges totalling $6,000. Why the hell is that cost 4 times as much as the charge for my gastro who performed the procedure? And why are there 2 charges? THere was nothing unusual or lengthy about this procedure which showed nothing more than GERD. It could not have taken longer than 2 hours, including pre and post procedure. I have received direct insurance reimbursement up to $973 that I am expected to pay out of pocket.
Something there does not seem right and this is not reasonable.

So I had a colonoscopy where I paid $0 for anesthesiology services. They accepted whatever the insurance paid. This was not NJ Ambulatory Anesthesiologist Associates!
I had a Hysteroscopy and was billed $1845 from the Anesthesiologist and $1845 from the RN! Because of this my insurance only covered 70% on half of the services so I am responsible for half of the bill which is a little over $1200! I think the cost is ridiculous! My Dr. fees plus surgery cost less than this! Anesthesiologist should not be able to charge whatever they want especially when they are mostly always out of network!

It was for only one hour, the Provider was selected from the hospital, not in my network, well they are out of their mind if they think I pay that, they need to make sure to be in my network if they want to get paid. I am not rich at all.

I was charged $750 for anesthesiology. Aetna says avg. price for my procedure is $280 locally. Doctor/hospital refused to provide estimate up front. Doctor/hospital will not allow patient to select anesthesiologist. I am now preparing for cataract surgery and have refused to sign papers until I find out estimate for anesthesia. I am a Libertarian politically, but I think these rackets need to be heavily regulated, because doctors are playing shell games with patients and running up costs and passing around kick backs behind the scenes. It is literally criminal in every sense imaginable.

7 hours IV sedation, no insurance. It was a traveling nurse anesthetist that charged $500 for first 90 minutes and $50 for every 15 minutes after that. Also charged per vial of actual medications, which totaled 5. I thought it was a lot but after seeing everyone else's costs, maybe not? Procedure done in office.

$3100 is a ridiculous amount for a 20 minute procedure, even considering the prep. (We'll say an hour total from the time I sat on the hospital bed, to the time I woke up after the EGD.) This was the total charge, which was split between the anesthesiologist and a nurse. After insurance adjustments, I'm still stuck with a $1154 bill for an uncomplicated upper endoscopy. This was on top of the facility fee and the doctor's charges. I've had EGDs before and never been charged anywhere near this much. I hope I never have to use these folks again, but the American health care system being what it is, I may not have a choice. I'll be calling their offices to see if there was some kind of mistake, because this seems ridiculous for a 20 minute procedure.

this is the hospital's anesthesia charge not even the charge from the anesthesiologist nor the cost of CRNA. 97 minute MRI for a 5 year old. was more than twice the expense of the MRI itself, and hospital claims their $629/unit cost is correct.

This was fair, for the not quite an hour, for this operation in April, 2015 on my husband. What's not fair is the surgery center up charging when they quoted $3,000 for their part. Now they want $1500 more?? Saying it was a bilateral hernia, we had surgeons staff get quotes from all local surgical centers. Do not use Panama City surgery center! The whole amount to date surgeon, anesthesia, & surgical center we paid is almost 6,000. Affordableherniasurgery center in Maryland, single hernia 1900.00 bilateral is 3200. It includes all fees. Center, surgeon, & anesthesia. Now who is overcharging?

Totally ridiculous for 1 hour and hospital charged me 7,300.00 for the anesthesia. I will never use that group again.

For a 45 minute operation, the anesthesiologist charged 700 dollars. Aside from that, they charged an extra 680 dollars for the nurse. ( just to make the difference be unnoticed.) When I checked, I was told that anesthesiologist charges to mix the potion, and charges for a nurse to administer it. ( While he is paying the nurse 45 bucks to do it. )Total rip off of the system.They should be put in a stockade, and rotten tomatoes thrown at them.

They put me to sleep with diprivan, for like a 20 minute procedure. Cigna would only pay $120.00

78,000 total bill uninsured so they give me 27,000 off leaving me a 50,000 bill including 33,000 for anastesia absolutly insane

Out patient surgery. The surgeon got paid $140 and the anesthesiologist billed for 1350. After insurance I was billed $928 for 30 minuets of general anesthesia. The hospital and both doctors were in network. I'm a nurse and have midrange insurance (I'm 29) and found this outrageous. I called to discuss this with Cigna and they said they have no way of changing the anesthesiologists billing because it's difficult to say what each patient needs. Meanwhile the surgeon bills 5000 and gets 140???! I'll be calling the anethsiologist tomorrow to discuss his billing methods.

41 minutes in operating room. Surgeon's charge $800. Anesthesiologist charged $3,300. Is this normal or reasonable?
Patient has no insurance. Too rich for Medicaid, too poor for Obamacare.

Total cost was a little above $7,000.

$3600 for the hospital included the equipment and drug for general anesthesia. $2080 for the anesthesiologist. Very overpriced.

I recently had a simple hysteroscopy done by an in-network doc in her office. Anesthesia was performed by a traveling service in her office. Because this service was "out of network" and not a part of the "doctor's office" which was in-network, the EOB was $6400!!!! Heck, I didn't have open heart surgery...I'm an RN and I was "out" for 15 minutes! The final bill came oh, with discounts, $600.00 which I'll pay at a monthly rate of $1.00 for 600 months! Shame on them!!!!!! Here is a good reason why our healthcare costs are skyrocketing!!!!!

Thsi fee of $1,900 was for the MD plus a helper, probably a Nurse Anesthetist. This fee was totally separate from the hospital fee. My insurance paid only 25% so I "took one to the shorts," so to speak.

I think it is a LOT of money and it is a hard ship.rnOn the other hand your eye's are worth all the money in the world.