Pelvic floor therapy and crappy health care system

Yep, I get you. Everything is *almost* full price for my husband and I until we hit $5,000 in one calendar year. It’s always so painful when we see a bill come in.

I’ve been dealing with kidney stones this month and the advice nurse told me to come in to the clinic due to the pelvic pain. Turns out a “triage” visit with some lab tests was over $400. And I did that triage visit twice in December.

Might a PT person who specializes in pelvic floor exercises be an option? Or is that the same thing as pelvic floor therapy?

I am a nurse practitioner but found myself bitching to my husband about this same thing… it’s so wild being in the patient side of things….. especially having a middle of the year baby…. So like i pay and pay and pay in 2024 and never meet my deductible of 8000$ and now look its 2025 and i have to start from 0$ and pay and pay and pay back up again to 8000$ again before anything gets covered! It’s super frustrating.

My April baby has some health stuff going on so we have extensive appointments and scans and labs and blahblah and it’s just never ending with the bills 🥲

i think it’s the same thing? The referral i have is for pelvic floor therapy and i called a place that does physical therapy with pelvic floor specialization

🤯 gah I’m so sorry! Those add up!

sounds like the same thing. So sorry it isn't covered by insurance! So frustrating

yes this! Exactly! The reset is so frustrating! My recommendation was that i just do the PT anyways because either way by April we’ll be paying the whole deductible so might as well start now for something that will help me. I’m just so blown that so much of all this is uncovered

Yes, our healthcare system is absolute shit. Where I live, the PT clinics that are affiliated with hospitals are exponentially more than going to a private place. I would look round your area to see if you can find a cheaper place. Since your deductible would have started over, you’ll still pay the full amount but maybe it would be less.

that’s a good point! The place they referred me to isn’t part of the local hospital (they don’t have one) and is in fact a separate private place, but that doesn’t mean i shouldn’t still shop around! Good call

you also don’t have to do it every week. It’s up to you how often you go. I would also talk to your pt and insurance company to see if there’s a way it could potentially get covered. If physical therapy is strictly a plan exclusion I don’t think there’s anything you can do about it.

I did pelvic floor PT and even with partial insurance coverage it was more expensive that expected. Despite the sessions always being the same amount of time, apparently they bill more based on *specific exercises*?!? Our healthcare system is garbage.