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Covid survivor receives $840k statement for treatment, with more on the way
- redis_mlc 6y agoI told somebody last week it would be about $1 million, but I guess I was low! There were 3 reasons to intubate patients: 1) to protect staff from aerosolization 2) to add billing codes 3) to treat the patient. Welcome to the USA! (For non-US citizens, the hospital, doctors, and insurers send you a tsunami of bills after treatment, sometimes for years. Many bills are incorrect, and often the billing trauma is worse than the medical treatment. You can hire a billing consultant to review and deduplicate the bills, at your own expense, of course. There's no recorded penalty for overbilling.)
- onetimemanytime 6y agoRemind me of the Chris Rock clip about a heart attack: congratulations says the doctor, you survived and hands you a $100K bill.
- redis_mlc 6y agoThe estimation formula I used was: ($20,000/day for ICU bed + $20,000/day misc) * 21 days * 1.5 fudge = $1,260,000 Even I was skeptical for a couple of seconds, but hey, US. :)
- schoolornot 6y agoTotal insanity, Alice in Wonderland like. I feel sad that the system is unlikely to improve in my lifetime. Patch Adams on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCrPBqQALc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdCrPBqQALc