US citizen Michael Flor, 70, received a $ 1.12 million bill for treatment for COVID-19. The document is 181 pages long and includes almost 3,000 positions, writes The Seattle Times on Saturday, June 13.
What does this huge amount consist of …
The man spent 62 days at the Swedish clinic in Issaqua, near Seattle. His condition was critical. During the treatment, the ward in the intensive care unit cost Flora $ 9,736 per day, and the ventilator, which the elderly man needed for 29 days, another $ 2,835 per day. In addition, in the two days in which his organs, including kidneys, lungs and heart, began to fail, it cost him $ 100,000.
In total, Flora has about 3,000 expense items on his bill - about 50 charges for each day of his hospital stay, The Seattle Times reported.
Flor participates in the Medicare seniors health insurance program, so he will not have to pay a significant portion of the total, the newspaper notes.
It is a pity that the publication does not specify how many hundreds of thousands of dollars he will still have to pay for the treatment.
And I also wonder if insurance pays such huge money per person for the treatment of coronavirus, then where do they get it? There are two million cases in the United States. Considering that there are over 115,000 dead, it seems to me that the insurance companies are not ready to pay such amounts for all of them.
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