Self pay and cost of complications

I am scheduled for surgery September 7, 2018. I am self pay and have no problems paying for the surgery itself. My concern is complications. How much could those potentially add to the cost of surgery?

Has anyone who was self pay ever had complications and what did they cost? Are we talking tens of thousand or more? How common is this?

Complications are one of those things that you can't predict and that no one else's experience can determine for you. You have them, or you don't. If you have them, it could be tens of thousands of dollars. :/

Hence my question. I was hoping someone has experienced this and could give me some input.

I am not worried about tens of thousands. I am worried about hundreds of thousands. My surgeon covers 90 days of complications up to $50K.

Yes and yes. My surgeon offered a complication insurance, which thank goodness we did. It was $1500, but I ended up with a second surgery the same day, and two units of blood. We saved money.

Ask you doctor if its offered.

I am 10 years post op RNY. Recently my iron got really low and I needed infusions. Because my doc coded it as post op RNY - my insurance denied to pay for it. it cost me app 6k.

Even though preexisting condition should be a problem on ACI - my insurance ignored that and denied to cover that.

Why did your doctor code it as such? Was he your surgeon?

No, my hema. Once they coded it like that - they refused to pay. Because I had surgery in US, self paid, it is in the system.

Normally they code it as ibs. I made a mistake and did checked the coding for it.