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Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by seandoe on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:15PM (#27716322)
Without knowing anything, 10 million seems excessive, but 6 months in a hospital will no doubt be expensive. I don't want to stir up bad feelings, I'm just curious, was there a good chance that your dad was going to make it out of the hospital? What was EOL talks like with the doctors? This story brings back the article here not too long ago, regarding the average hospital stay of a doctor at EOL vs the general public. I'm not sure of all the influencing factors regarding EOL procedure, but it does seem like a huge amount of resources are used for the very short end of a large amount of people's lives. Once again, no offense intended, it just got me thinking.
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Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by t3rabytes on Friday July 02, 2021 @04:23PM (#27716416)
Anecdata: I spent 5 days in ICU in 2018 and had a $350k bill from a California hospital, which my insurance company paid $200k for after adjustments and discounts. I wouldn’t say $10m for 6 months is far off.
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Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by seandoe on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:02PM (#27717482)
Yea that sentence came off wrong. I don't doubt the OP's claim at all. I was trying to acknowledge that billing that amount to anyone isn't right and looking to make the point that healthcare is expensive and how "we" choose to allocate resources is an important discussion.
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Re:HHS announces rule to protect consumers from surprise med... by treyfitty on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:42PM (#27718953)
No offense taken. In hindsight, it should have been clear that every day spent in the ICU past 3 months was not a good sign of my dad ever making it out of there. However, we 100% believed he was going to get better all throughout the process. Idk what this assessment was based on, but reflecting back for the first time in a long time, I now realize just how much emotions cloud sensible outlook & probability assessment.
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