u/pinkheartedrobe-xs

I want some success stories/inspiration not sure where i can ask this. Tysm

Some people set up outside my property and are littering and doing a bunch of drugs and being loud and rowdy, I made a report to nonemergency and the Code violation website. Just curious how long it’s taken people in the past to have this resolved?

In the hours since the Supreme Court announced it would allow the Trump administration to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Haiti and Syria, the potential consequences have ricocheted through American communities.

My son was born with a testicular torsion (completely healthy otherwise, thankfully!). The nurses scanned his testicles and determined one of the testicles was not receiving any bloodflow. A doctor ordered him to be airlifted to UVA, thinking immediate surgery would be required.

After I made it to UVA, I found out that not only did they not yet perform surgery, they deemed surgery unnecessary at this time. They had scanned his testicles and had him kept in the NICU, where he was on IVs (to prepare for a surgery that never happened) and several wires monitoring him (again, he was perfectly healthy other than the testicle; if he hadn't had that, he would've just been enjoying skin to skin time with his mother back at the original hospital).

Eventually, my wife was discharged as quickly as she could be, and made her way to UVA to breastfeed our son and get him off of the IVs. That evening, they moved us to a private room on the floor above, saying that they needed our spot in the portion of the NICU we were in.

He was fully off of the IVs by the evening, but they refused to let us leave or even take off all of his monitors and wires until the afternoon of the next day.

They then emailed my wife with a 40k medical bill yesterday. A matching claim has not appeared in my wife's insurance yet.

UVA does offer financial assistance, which would likely be helpful (we have one other child and an annual household income of 55k), but I wanted to know if there are other options that might help as well. Thank you in advance.

TL;DR: Doctor had my newborn airlifted for a surgery he didn't need, got a 40k medical bill.

Edit: To clarify, surgery was unneeded because the torsed testicle was already completely dead. Unsalvageable.

Edit2: Thanks for all of the replies, everyone! My wife and I definitely just started panicking... we'll take care of everything we need to on our end with setting up insurance, and see how insurance handles it from there.

I know it isn't a lot, I have great insurance thank God, but even $800 is so much to me. my last paycheck was around $700 because of lost wages, and I feel so stuck because I don't know how to go about this. like can you even do payment plans?

I also found out that I have another medical bill for about $600 that I thought was handled. Back in Oct. 2025 I went to a gynecologist they did a test, and the lab sent me a bill in January for $600. I called them about it and they said they put my insurance info in wrong and that they fixed it. A couple of days ago I got another bill from them and it looks like nothing changed. I'm not even on the insurance I was on when I got that test because I was on my mom's, now I have insurance through my job and there's no way they'd cover that bill.

I know at the end of the day it isn't a lot of medical debt in comparison to a lot of other people in the US, but I live in one of the most expensive counties in the US and it feels like my fiance and I are barely holding ourselves above water. if it weren't for the fact that I knew I would need the good insurance because of my disability we would have been in even more debt and I know I should be lucky, but I'm navigating my health issues blindly on $23/hour and am barely holding it together mentally. I had to tell the inpatient facility I was in that I couldn't stay for long because my job doesn't offer sick leave and I can't afford to be there, so now I'm out but still suffering mentally and trying to hold it together because this is my first full time job and it pays a lot better than some of the other retail jobs in the area.

I just feel stuck, I don't know what to do. I also have $1,500 on my credit card which again isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, I just feel so overwhelmed as I just left the hospital two weeks ago and haven't fully recovered.

I was experiencing hair loss, so I went to the dermatologist to see if I had alopecia. She ordered blood tests do be done. I just started a new job and was in the probationary period, so I did not have health insurance. I would have waited, but she told me if it's an auto immune disease, I need to get the tests done asap to ensure my symptoms don't get worse.

Doc told me that for these blood tests, it's usually $300 total for uninsured patients. Today, I received an invoice for $3,314.55 and I'm in total panic. There's no way I can afford this, even with a payment plan, and I wouldn't have done the tests right away had I known it would be this high. The invoice has an itemized list of everything that was done with my blood sample. It especially sucks because I tested negative for everything, so the labs were basically completely unnecessary.

Can this be negotiated down? I don't know what to do. It's LabCorp and I'm in NYC if that matters. Thanks for your help.

ETA: to clarify, i did not know this was being done through LabCorp. they said they were going to send it to their lab and gave me an estimate, so i was under the belief that everything was facilitated by them since its a specialized practice (dermatology). thanks for the advice and shared experiences. i plan to call first thing tomorrow when they open.