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dimnd
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Western USA
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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject: hospital bill, 12-patient ward |
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any ideas what the bill could run with a hosp stay that did not require surgery just antibiotics and IV's along with labs.
possibly ER time for a few hrs. at most. |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject: |
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| If the patient didn't stay in a room and just was in the ER, ran some blood work and an IV or two it shouldn't be over $50US and even that would be on the expensive end. Health care in Korea is dirt cheap. |
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Socks
Joined: 15 May 2008
Location: somewhere in here...
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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If person had medical insurance $50.
If person did NOT have medical insurance $500 ~ $1000. |
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dimnd
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Western USA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:09 pm Post subject: hosp stay |
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medical ins through ps
hosp stay 5 days on a ward of 12 people plus few hours in ER |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: hosp stay |
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| dimnd wrote: |
medical ins through ps
hosp stay 5 days on a ward of 12 people plus few hours in ER |
Less than a million.... probably closer to 400k at a public hospital.
As a comparison, ACL surgury and a week in hospital cost 1 million with NHIC medical. |
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dimnd
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Western USA
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: thanks |
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| good to have some sort of gauge |
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jackson7
Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: Kim Jong Il's Future Fireball
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject: Re: hosp stay |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| dimnd wrote: |
medical ins through ps
hosp stay 5 days on a ward of 12 people plus few hours in ER |
Less than a million.... probably closer to 400k at a public hospital.
As a comparison, ACL surgury and a week in hospital cost 1 million with NHIC medical. |
I think my bill was something around 20-25K in 1998 for ACL surgery in Alaska. Fortunately I was under my parents' health insurance as government employees (teachers) and additional coverage for the football league I was playing in at the time. Ended up costing around 400 bucks out of pocket.
I'm friends with a brain surgeon here, and he says intravascular surgery (in which they stick the "tools" through an artery on your hip and go through your artery on a wire!) for the brain costs something around 3 million won, with it being divided 70/30 between patient and insurance. A similar surgery in the states would run USD 50K+ I imagine... |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Any idea what an angiogram costs here? |
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