IBD & Private Rooms

How can insurance companies deny/question claims for private rooms when a patient has a diagnosis of any type of IBD! I can't imagine when I was flaring and going to the bathroom 20+ times a day and barely making it to the bathroom, having to move my roommates nuns cap and replace it with mine in time! Or having a bedside commode with someone on the other side of a curtain hearing my cries of pain! Hospitals should have only private rooms on GI floors thus eliminating the insurance companies claims of "this exceeds the normal charge of a semi-private room". I am fighting with my insurance company for denying almost $3,000 for this reason, luckily my GI originally thought I had an infection so I needed to be isolated, or I would be responsible for this amount. The bill itself was for over $106,000 and they wrote off 3/4 of it and only paid out $32,000, but want to stick me with $3,000? Give me a break!

Let me tell you what I encountered.....Try having two people in the same room with IBD fighting for the bathroom. I never requested a private room, but in this case, we should of never been put in the same room together. I don't think hospital think when doing this. Private rooms should be a nessessity for IBD patients.

Janice

When I go into the hospital they put me in a GI-ward and most of the rooms there have double beds with a single bathroom; everyone there has a severe digestive disorder and they share a bathroom..... they also have private rooms for people that request them or need to be quarantined. I was quarantined because of c.diff....it was very nice having a private room with a bathroom.

--Keith

i got a private room in the hospital on the grounds that it would be unfair to my roommate for not ever being able to use the toilet as i would be in there 21 out of 24 hours a day.