length of stay

hmontty · October 2012

Hi, ladies,

For DD, I had my surgery on a Tuesday morning and was released Saturday morning, which was the max stay allowed by my insurance (which was 4 days).

So this time, if I have 3 days, and my surgery is a Friday morning, I should have until Monday morning, right? Because some people are telling me I will only have until Sunday morning.

Neener73 · October 2012

It depends on how your insurance company counts the "days." My insurance company's days went from midnight to 11:59 p.m. (It allows 4 days for c-sections.) The hospital stay begins from the time the baby is born. Therefore, if a baby was born at 11:30 p.m. on a Monday, it counts as Day 1 of the hospital stay, so the person would be discharged on Thursday. A person who delivered at 12:05 a.m. on Monday would also be discharged on Thursday. If your insurance company counts "days" this way, you would be discharged on Sunday.

Our previous insurance company had a 3 night policy for c-sections. I don't remember what time that company's "night" began. Under this type of a policy, you would be discharged on Monday.

hmontty · October 2012

Thanks, that explains the discrepancy. I guess my last insurance counted nights spent. I'll have to call to see how this company does things. It' still BCBS, but a different local franchise.

+Jasha+ · October 2012

It depends on your insurance company and your dr/hospital. I delivered DS on Friday at nearly 1pm and was discharged on Monday morning. My RCS is scheduled for 1:30 PM on a Tuesday and I'm assuming that I will be discharged on Friday morning. But I do have the option of leaving a day early and having a nurse visit me the next day.

HarrietNJMommy · October 2012

My insurance used to have a 4-midnight stay. Meaning you get released on DAY 5. This time though, it changed to a 3-midnight stay, meaning I got released on DAY 4.

I had my baby on Tuesday night and was out on Friday.........

hmontty · October 2012

Thanks, ladies. I just called both my insurance and the hospital for a definitive answer.

My insurance allows a 4-day stay, and I am released on the fifth day (so they count the day of surgery but don't count the day of release).

The hospital allows a 3- to 4-day stay, but they DON'T count the day of surgery and DO count the day of release.

Either way, that means I have surgery on Friday and am out Tuesday morning.

The hospital did say they would allow me to leave Monday if I felt OK, but not before then.

mkinMI · October 2012

Our insurance blows and I could stay 4 days, but I'd have to pay for it. With my second I had a RCS on Friday morning and was discharged Sunday morning, per my request. I had to let my OB know ahead of time that I wanted to leave early and they didn't use staples, like the first time, because they would need to be in longer than two days. So they used something else instead.

Daisy22 · October 2012

With Ds3 I had surgery at 8am friday morning and they released me on monday morning. I could have left sunday if I wanted too but I wanted an extra 24 hours to recover before going home to my crazy life of having 3 kids 3 years old and under.

Baby Bouchard · October 2012

While my insurance allows 4 days, for some reason they were anxious to push me out the door so to say...

I had a RCS on a Tuesday, DS was born at 3:33pm...Thursday morning at 5am the OB on call says I am being released...by mid morning Thursday all my paperwork was done and they were ready for me to go. I was shocked to say the least but honestly as little as DS was sleeping and the frequent vital checks home sounded better, at least I could sleep there.

RumbleLina · October 2012

My first day never started until the day after my cesarean. So even though DS was born at 2:55am Saturday, my first day there was Sunday.

Mrs.PinkPearls · October 2012

I think we stayed our maximum days but I am not sure. We went in early on a Monday morning (12:15 ish) and were released on Thursday evening. Good luck!