This life-saving coronavirus treatment could quickly drain someone’s life cost savings. And then some.
A Seattle COVID-19 survivor knew that he needs to have run up a pretty big medical tab after investing March and April in the healthcare facility, including more than a month in the extensive care system. Michael Flor, 70, told the Seattle Times that the 181- page, $1.1 million health center costs almost gave him a heart attack.
” I opened it and said ‘Holy [bleep]!'” he stated.
Flor was called “the miracle child” by nurses at Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah, Wash., for his unbelievable turn-around after spending 4 weeks on a ventilator. He was so near death at one point that a night-shift nurse held a phone to his ear so that his spouse and kids might say their last farewells from quarantine. He was “as ill as you can get, with essentially every organ system closing down,” according to among his physicians.
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” I opened it and said ‘Holy [bleep]!'”.
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The excellent news is that Flor recovered and is back at home.
Here’s how the $1,122,50104 bill breaks down:
The 181- page book– sorry, expense– consists of almost 3,000 made a list of charges, balancing about 50 a day. The greatest expense by far was his 42- day stay in the ICU, totaling $408,912 His room had to be sealed, and was accessed only by medical staff wearing plastic fits and headgear, which cost $9,736 a day.
Flor likewise was hooked to a mechanical ventilator for 29 days, which at $2,835 a day added to $82,215
There were 2 days when his heart, kidneys and lungs were all failing. And the bill for that touch-and-go period spans 20 pages and runs practically $100,000 in expenses as doctors “were tossing everything at me they could think of,” Flor stated.
Almost a quarter of the bill consists of various drug costs, and this accounting does not even factor in Flor’s two weeks of healing in a rehabilitation center.
Flor said that the expense has actually provided him survivor’s regret. “There’s a sense of ‘why me?’ Why did I deserve all this?” he told the Seattle Times. “Taking a look at the incredible expense of all of it absolutely adds to that survivor’s regret.”
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The median expense of a coronavirus hospitalization is $14,366
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But he ought to understand that he’s not the only COVID-19 survivor to be shocked with a surprise medical bill following a bout with the deadly illness that’s eliminated 116,250 Americans and counting Attorney turned author David Lat just recently blogged about his own $320,000 COVID-19 bill in Slate He invested 16 nights in the hospital in March, including a week in the ICU and six days on a ventilator