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Thanks Sheryl and others. I am pleased to say that you were correct, and a deal was struck between the hospital, ourselves and the insurers WR life, who have been great all through this. The hospital offered day infusion with a pill, almost the same price, but potentially more debilitating according to them. They still insisted that the infusion took 2 days, it was an American programme. As one of the correspondents said, she preferred to be in hospital rather than at home. So a deal was struck with the insurer, for which I am not privie to the details. So. all good, and thanks again for all your comments.

Thanks to the very informative replies. It is my wife ( Thai) who is to have the chemotherapy. It is clear that the recommendation is to have the treatment, but to question the hospitals reasons for the 2 night stay. As someone pointed out it may be that the infusion time is longer than normal in her case. We are now armed with information to challenge the hospital. We would prefer to stay with BPH as the surgeon and oncologist have both been good to my wife .It seems it's the insurance and payment dept. that is trying to maximise revenue. Many thanks again for your helpful comments.