In November 2020, Bisi Bennett went into labor at seven months pregnant. Halfway to AdventHealth hospital, with her husband, Chris, behind the wheel, she gave birth to their son Dorian in their Mitsubishi Outlander. He didn’t breathe. At the hospital, before they wheeled Bisi away from her newborn, she heard four magical words: “We’ve got a pulse.”
Dorian spent 56 days in the neonatal intensive care unit getting respiratory support, surgery, cardiology, and nutritional care, and thrived. The doctors and nurses had, by any measure, performed a small miracle.
It’s hard to put a price on a miracle. But technology has increasingly taken on the challenge.
Bisi, who works in the insurance industry, had done everything right, financially speaking. She’d attended an in-network hospital close to home. She watched their deductible carefully.
Then the bill came. More than $550,000. The hospital’s proposed installment plan: $45,843 a month for a year.
