We all know that NICU care does not come cheap. So I want to know how your patients tend to pay the bills. Are you faced with ethical dilemmas when financial limitations limit care ?

As for my NICU, the government pays for the NICU care of all its citizens. The non-citizens are of two types. The insured and the non-insured. The insured have no problem. The non-insured have lot of problem paying the bills...but the hospitals here work with many charitable institutions to foot the bill.

Hi Jack

In australia , the citizens and permenant residents are covered under medicare , which means that the government pays for all the hospital expenses . The beneficiary needs to pay a small amount towards medicare ..

In case of others , there is rules in place whereby whoever comes over to work in australia is mandated to get private insurance . This is mandatory when the visa is lodged . Hence , it should be assumed that virtually all people in australia are insured ... The medical care is extremely expensive and could easily come to 1000 dollars / day during hospital stay ...

Bye

Gopan