Survivor covid-19 receive a bill of a million dollars from the hospital

WASHINGTON, united States

An american 70-year-old caught covid-19 and was hospitalized for two months in Seattle (northwest) had the unpleasant surprise of receiving a bill of 181 pages for more than a million dollars, revealed on Saturday the newspaper Seattle Times.

Michael Flower was admitted on the 4th of march at the Swedish medical center Issaquah in Seattle. In the 62 days that he spent there, he was so close to death that one night the nurses phoned to his wife and their two children are thrown out of it.

But it recovered and, between applause and live to the nursing staff, he was discharged on 5 may.

His heart was on the point of “stop a second time” to receive the huge bill for a total amount of 1.122.501,04 dollars, said the daily.

The invoice details the care that you received and its cost: 9.736 dollars per day for the intensive care room, nearly 409.000 dollars to stay in a sterile room, due to the spread of the coronavirus during 42 days, 82.000 dollars by the use of a ventilator for 29 days, or $ 100,000 for the care of “last chance”, when his prognosis was life or death for two days.

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However, Flower, who is a beneficiary of the health insurance for the elderly Medicare, you should not have to pay for it, according to the Seattle Times.

The gigantic plan of help to the american economy adopted by the Congress includes a budget of 100 million dollars to compensate hospitals and the private insurance companies that have treated patients of Covid-19.

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