Northerngirl
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In-patient charges in public hospitals
If you are in a public ward under the care of a consultant for treatment and you remain overnight, you are receiving in-patient services.
If you are admitted to the hospital under the care of a consultant where you do not require the use of a bed overnight and your discharge from hospital is planned, you are receiving day services.
The charge for in-patient/day services is 60 euro per day up to a maximum of 600 euro in a year. The charge does not apply to the following groups:
In cases of excessive hardship, a Health Service Executive Area may provide the service free of charge
- medical card holders
- people receiving treatment for prescribed infectious diseases
- people who are subject to "long stay" charges
- Children up to six weeks of age, children suffering from prescribed diseases and disabilities and children referred for treatment from child health clinics and school board examinations
- People who are entitled to hospital services because of EU Regulations
- Women receiving maternity services
To be honest I would have expected Northerngirl to be asked for her EHIC before charges were waived.
Beaumont invoiced/billed me subsequent to a visit to A&E even though I paid on the spot. A phone call appeared to sort it out, i.e. I have heard nothing since.
I asked if I could pay on the spot in Beaumont but I wasn't allowed. Maybe because it was late at night.
Interesting - that's more or less what happened to us with the Rotunda in the first case. They sent a letter threatening legal action having never previously invoiced us and after the full amount due had been covered by private health insurance anyway. I complained, they investigated and they apologised and put it down to an unprecedented administrative error which would not happen again. A few years later we're back for ante-natal care and delivery of our baby, they forget to charge us the €500 deposit when we start the semi-private care (even after I explicitly asked them on our initial visit if we need to pay anything) and a few weeks after the birth of our son send us a snotty letter telling us that we should have paid this and that it was now overdue. Enclosed was a hand scrawled invoice which clarified nothing. I complained about their lack of a proper invoice (which might be needed for claiming MED1 tax relief), their snotty letter and the fact that this was the second time this sort of thing had happened. They said they'd get back to us but never did. The €500 remains outstanding but they don't seem capable of or bothered to deal with the matter.when the actual invoice arrived 3 months later it was a bit threathening in tone ie if you dont pay by xxx we will pass it on to a 3rd party for collecting, which I thought was a bit rich for the first invoice.
That too seems odd to me. Even where a private health insurer foots (no pun intended) the bill I would expect the patient to receive a copy of the invoice for their own records.When i broke my ankle i had to pay 60e in Vincents on the day, give them my BUPA details and that was it. I never paid another penny even with all the physio and 3 different casts and seeing 3 or 4 doctors along my journey of recovery. I have no idea really who paid for all of that. I mean, if i didn't have BUPA would i have had to pay for it? I'm sure not everyone could afford to do that. Anyway, i'll keep paying my health insurance just in case!
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