According to the Seattle Times daily, an American man in his seventies was asked to settle a bill amounting to more than a million dollars. In fact, the 70-year-old gentleman who spent 62 days in the hospital after being infected with Covid-19 received a 181-page bill, the Seattle Times reported in its Saturday issue.
This invoice corresponds to the hospital costs since 04 March of Michael Flor at the Swedish Issaquah medical center in Seattle. The 70-year-old man, therefore, spent 62 days, approaching death to the point that the nurses remained in contact by telephone with the patient’s family, his wife and two children, to bid him farewell.
Fortunately, the patient eventually recovered and he left the hospital on May 5, to the applause of the nursing staff. However, he had to be shocked the day he received a 181-page long bill showing a total amount of $ 1,122,501.04, he told the daily.
181-page long bill showing a total amount of $ 1,122,501.04
The invoice was thus very salty and specified the details of the care which was administered to him and their unit price, in particular, a cost of 9,736 dollars per day for the admission in intensive care, approximately 409,000 dollars of costs for the sterilization during 42 days of his Chamber against the contagiousness of the coronavirus, 82,000 dollars for the costs of using an artificial respirator for 29 days, and 100,000 dollars for “last chance” care when its life-threatening condition was engaged.
Nevertheless, Mr. Flor, will not have to pay the bill of 1 million dollars since he is covered and will benefits from health insurance for seniors according to the Seattle Times especially that the US government had planned aid to the economy and adopted by Congress of $ 100 million budget to effectively compensate hospitals and private insurance companies that treated patients victims of the Covid-19.
