$7,901 for a circumcision?

Gas, food prices..then this?

On March 25, a working class mother took her son to the Commonwealth Health Center for his circumcision, just two weeks after his 18th birthday. The procedure, said to be a simple and quick one, lasted exactly an hour and nine minutes.

The next day, the mother went back to the hospital to pick up her bill and arrange for payments. Upon being handed the receipt for her son's hospital bill, she was shocked to see the amount she was being made to pay. A charge she thought was going to amount to no more than $300 actually stated $7,901.82.

That's not the half of it, though. According to the CHC administration office, the amount of $7,901.82 was only an estimate of her son's actual bill.

“This is only an estimate. The patient can actually end up paying more,” said a CHC employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The mother said she cried over the bill since receiving it. (More on saipantribune.com)