As a senior, this medical crisis has all of us reading the news and that results in the decision to stay away from public places. Medicare only pays 80% of hospital and some insurance hasn't opted to waive out of pocket costs for Covid19 treatment. It could be disastrously in a financial sense to contract this virus even if you lived through it! I don't think everyone has acknowledge the money aspect of this virus, hospital cost, meds, ICU care, this nightmare it real, and effecting millions of people. Says 80% of a Covid19 experience for Medicare Subscribers could still result in thousands of dollars out of pocket if your insurance doesn't waive costs.
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Thanks to a Congressional funding bill and insurance, he likely will not have to pay the 181-page billFlor says he may not ultimately need to pay for much of his treatment. He’s insured by Medicare and Medicare Advantage through Kaiser Permanente. The health care company has announced that it will waive most out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 patients through 2020.https://people.com/health/man-gets-1-million-hospital-bill-coronavirus/Washington man gets stunning souvenir with COVID-19 treatment:
a $1.1 million billAfter a two-month battle with coronavirus, one Seattle man says he got a statement of charges totaling more than $1.1 million. As the price of the pandemic comes into focus, some experts say that cost may eventually fall to all of us. Flor was lucky. The 70-year-old made a full recovery and says he only had to cover about $3,000 of that huge medical bill, thanks to Medicare, supplemental insurance, and Congressional funding designed to help hospitals defray pandemic costs.The 181-page hospital bill includes a day fee of $9,736 — $408,912 total — for his ICU room, around a quarter of a million for the various drugs doctors tried on him and $82,215 for the ventilator he used for 29 days. In all, the bill was for $1,122,501.04, and includes almost 3,000 itemized charges.
https://time.com/5853392/million-dollars-covid-19-treatment-seattle/After spending months hospitalized for COVID-19 at Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah, Wash., Michael Flor, 70, says that he knew his stay would be pricey. He’d spent 62 days in an intensive care unit, including weeks in an induced coma, and come so close to death that his family had called to say goodbye. But he says it was still “heart-stopping” to read the hospital’s bill — for $1.1 million.
“I had to look at it a number of times… to see if I was seeing it right,” Flor, a Seattle resident, tells TIME.
The 181-page bill included almost 3,000 itemized charges, the Seattle Times reported. His room in the intensive care unit alone had cost about $9,700 a day, Flor says.
https://www.newsbreak.com/washington/seattle/news/2053711474196/washington-man-gets-stunning-souvenir-with-covid-19-treatment-a-11-million-billWASHINGTON (SBG) — After a two-month battle with coronavirus, one Seattle man says he got a statement of charges totaling more than $1.1 million. As the price of the pandemic comes into focus, some experts say that
cost may eventually fall to all of us.
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Topic: (New) Covid19 Nightmare (Read 628 times)
October 16, 2009, 04:48:42 am
