I'm sorry about the debt @Ghostsinthehouse. I don't know about your insurance situation but here are some numbers with mine. We have insurance through my husband's work, I think payment for is like 20% of the cost, insurance pays 80%. That being said, my last two hospitalizations were around $2000 and $1200 out-of-pocket respectively. Stayed about a week each time. The more expensive one though, I had a seizure (turned out to be psychogenic, not epileptic) but I guess looked enough like epilepsy that they took me via ambulance to a medical hospital for a day for tests and observation and then rules were I had to ride back to the psych hospital via ambulance too, H couldn't drive me. I was hospitalized twice by the county before having insurance and not working even then one time they claimed I still owed over $1000, but I refused to pay it and after so many years, they just wiped it off the books.