At least in the US, the mother’s health insurance policy (assuming she has one) will automatically extend to cover children born while the mother is under coverage.
That was not the case with my sister. She has pretty good insurance and had really good care. She ended up making a phone call an hour or two after her premature baby was born to add her to the policy because her now uninsured baby was in the NICU.
I don’t have the details of your sisters insurance plan (I dont think, at least. Maybe someone slipped them to me when I wasn’t looking) so I can’t say what happened. I can say that that is remarkably rapid, far faster than is required under the Newborns act, so I suspect there were either some complciating factors or an abnormal degree of urgency on the part of the hospital billing department that I cannot address. Unfortunately anecdotes that rely on PHI are difficult to diagnose while maintaining privacy of the person in question. They may simply have been forcing all the adminsitrative stress asap so she could focus on the whole “nicu baby” thing.
At least in the US, the mother’s health insurance policy (assuming she has one) will automatically extend to cover children born while the mother is under coverage.
That was not the case with my sister. She has pretty good insurance and had really good care. She ended up making a phone call an hour or two after her premature baby was born to add her to the policy because her now uninsured baby was in the NICU.
I don’t have the details of your sisters insurance plan (I dont think, at least. Maybe someone slipped them to me when I wasn’t looking) so I can’t say what happened. I can say that that is remarkably rapid, far faster than is required under the Newborns act, so I suspect there were either some complciating factors or an abnormal degree of urgency on the part of the hospital billing department that I cannot address. Unfortunately anecdotes that rely on PHI are difficult to diagnose while maintaining privacy of the person in question. They may simply have been forcing all the adminsitrative stress asap so she could focus on the whole “nicu baby” thing.
She gave birth in a very nice but very small facility so it is plausible that they put pressure on her for billing purposes.