Uhm, well, how many 16 year olds do you know who have jobs with benefits?
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I remember swallowing a peach pit as a child :eek: . A marble is less than childs play.
There is such thing as state aid and why this young mother didn’t have that is beyond me?
If the baby is a true newborn, the mom might not have put the baby on public aid yet, or the paperwork might not have come through. In my admittedly poor understanding of it (I’ve worked in hospitals in IL for nearly 7 years now, but not in billing of procedures per se), at least in IL you ought to be able to have a month of coverage retroactive from the date that it becomes effective - in other words, public aid will cover procedures done for one month before the start date if you bring them the bills.
What I hope was going on is that the ER physician or nurse called for their social worker to discuss with the teen mom a plan to gain coverage for her baby.
Glad everything came out okay in the end.
Or came out of the end okay.
All I can add is, in my son’s case, those pennies sure come out shiney!