I 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 aerosolizat

I 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.)