My sis-in-law gave birth to her baby boy prematurely at 26 weeks. It was unfortunate that her water bag broke, and can't delay the delivery. She delivered at Gleneagles, and now her baby is in NICU. She is not just worried about her baby's health, but also the hospital cost. The PD is a very good doc Dr YY Yip, and it will be good if he can continue to care for the baby, but the cost is really a big concern. For just 10 days, the bill comes up to $15K already! My sis-in-law is left with the option of transfering the baby to a government hospital like KKH or NUH instead. She heard that after the transfer, the government hospital will still charge according to that of private hospital. Is this true? Anyone with premature birth please share with me how you deal with the costs!!
Premature birth
- Thread starter kimmyteo
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Hi kimmyteo
Maybe you can get help from the below thread. Heard can appeal from the govement hospital to get subdies. Is a thread on premature babies. Maybe the mummies there can help to ans your question
http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/messages/5/490727.html?1232125809
Maybe you can get help from the below thread. Heard can appeal from the govement hospital to get subdies. Is a thread on premature babies. Maybe the mummies there can help to ans your question
http://www.singaporemotherhood.com/forumboard/messages/5/490727.html?1232125809
kkf, I really need your advice on this thread, as my question is really specific. My sis-in-law went to see MP today to ask if they can pay their gleneagles hospital bill with their medisave but was told that this cannot be helped. They are really very devastated now. How much was your bill at raffles? how long is your boy in raffles before being transferred to kkh? and did you have difficulty paying the sum? The baby is still in gleneagles as they say there isn't any vacancy in KKH or NUH's NICU. Please help me. Thanks.
kkf, I read the other thread, you mentioned your son was transferred out after 3 days, so you don't have this bill problem. You were also very experienced, having a gynae at KKH and one at Mt E. We are not that experienced and my sis-in-law's premature delivery is really unexpected. I still need advice on the payment from anyone!!
kimmyteo,
you may want to post your concerns at the premature support group thread and see if anyone can answer you. I'm sure there are some mummies who had the same situation also. And yes, kkf has just given birth and unable to answer you so soon. for my case, i admitted myself to kkh as advised by my gynae as we already anticipated my early delivery...
you may want to post your concerns at the premature support group thread and see if anyone can answer you. I'm sure there are some mummies who had the same situation also. And yes, kkf has just given birth and unable to answer you so soon. for my case, i admitted myself to kkh as advised by my gynae as we already anticipated my early delivery...
You can transfer to a government hospital, and in fact, the government hospital are better equipt at taking care of premiees, you can apply for the msw and they will take care of it after assessing your situation.
Do take note, money doesn't matters, the baby does!
anything money can solve is not a problem.
Baby is God sent, do not overlook it bacause of money.
Do take note, money doesn't matters, the baby does!
anything money can solve is not a problem.
Baby is God sent, do not overlook it bacause of money.
noninabebeh
New Member
Hi Kimmy Teo,
Dun know if you still need the say on this. My son was also place in SCN for about 2 weeks, and they charged at $490 per day (this follows the B1 class that i took when i had to stay in the hospital), this is before the govt subsidy. The people in business office of KKH did consult us with regards to the bill as for premature birth, the estimated stay in NICU/SCN is approximately 90 days.
So she ask if we want to downgrade to C class as the bill size and the govt subsidy is higher. But after calculating both parents income, we do not qualify for the downgrading. So she come up with another alternative that is to appeal. So she refer our case to the MSW.
Getting the appeal thru is not so simple, they are so many paper works, payslip both parents, current outstanding bills, outstanding loans.. all these are quite tedious. We did ask them that an installment plan can be worked out with the hospital in case we could not pay the sum in full and according to them, yes.. it can be arranged.
I suppose to deliver at Mount A, and my baby decided to arrive earlier. I never regretted the decision of having to deliver at KKH and having my son at the Special Care Nursery. The service and staff of the hospital are so accomodating and it makes my stay there pleasant.
I dun think that they will charge according to the private hospital charges. Approach the MSW.
You can try calling the this number, 63943075.
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Dun know if you still need the say on this. My son was also place in SCN for about 2 weeks, and they charged at $490 per day (this follows the B1 class that i took when i had to stay in the hospital), this is before the govt subsidy. The people in business office of KKH did consult us with regards to the bill as for premature birth, the estimated stay in NICU/SCN is approximately 90 days.
So she ask if we want to downgrade to C class as the bill size and the govt subsidy is higher. But after calculating both parents income, we do not qualify for the downgrading. So she come up with another alternative that is to appeal. So she refer our case to the MSW.
Getting the appeal thru is not so simple, they are so many paper works, payslip both parents, current outstanding bills, outstanding loans.. all these are quite tedious. We did ask them that an installment plan can be worked out with the hospital in case we could not pay the sum in full and according to them, yes.. it can be arranged.
I suppose to deliver at Mount A, and my baby decided to arrive earlier. I never regretted the decision of having to deliver at KKH and having my son at the Special Care Nursery. The service and staff of the hospital are so accomodating and it makes my stay there pleasant.
I dun think that they will charge according to the private hospital charges. Approach the MSW.
You can try calling the this number, 63943075.
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