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Paying for scans at the Coombe

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  • 20-09-2006 9:12am
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    Jagera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 910 ✭✭✭


    We went for our first trip to the Coombe last week. Apart from the pain of having to be in there for 6 hours (3 midwives had called in sick) we have been billed for the scan, 100 euros.

    This is our second child, the last was also in the Coombe and we weren't charged for the scan. They do have new scan machines, but I can't see how that would mean we now have to charge..

    Any ideas?


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    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Ring thier accounts department and enquire.


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    eimearnll
    Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭eimearnll


    i have 3 kids and never had to pay for a scan,did they give you the appointment for the scan or did you ring and make it yourself.i think if you make it yourself its going private.i could be wrong.


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    ArthurDent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 915 ✭✭✭ArthurDent


    I'm with Coombe too and the booking for I got said that all scans were to be paid for at €100 up to a maximum of €300. I'm going private so not sure if that is the reason or not.

    This is my third and I kow I was charged on both others too.


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    numacd
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭numacd


    it is because your going private i know you do have to pay when you go private,i was public on all 3 kids never had to pay.


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    Jagera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 910 ✭✭✭Jagera


    oh right.. we're actually semi-private. we've spoken to the accounts dept but they didn't really help in determining why we're paying for it.

    they said it might have been in the consent form but the staff who signed us in should have made it clear. then if course she finished off with something like "ah sure you know how it is .. .. if they didn't tell you then you need to ask these questions" .. ahh.. yeah thanks for that!!


    thanks all for the answers.


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    squire1
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭squire1


    My wife had a baby in the Coombe in May and we were private. We were never charged for any scans. Most of the scans were done by the doctor in his private rooms but at least two were done by a nurse in the public section. We even went for an emergency scan after a car accident and were not charged for that either. I'd keep ringing accounts until you get the answer you want to hear. Unless, of course, their policy has changed since May. The only thing we had to pay the hospital was €250 "deposit" for the room which they returned after the baby was born.


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    crosstownk
    Registered Users Posts: 12,863 ✭✭✭✭crosstownk


    My wife is semi-private in the Coombe and we have to pay for scans. We are going for one tomorow so I'll post the most up-to-date price then. We had to pay the last time too fo our daughter, who is 2.5 now, and back then it was €70.

    EDIT : Went for scan yesterday - invoice arrived today - no flies there. Scan was €100. We did have a scan on a basic untrasound machine earlier on in the pregnancy, but the one my wife went for was in the Radiology Dept, so I think that as you have to request it then you also have to pay for it. Thats the way it appears to me.
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