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Colorado COVID survivor receives $840,000 statement for treatment, with more on the way
Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:20 pm
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Robert Dennis spent weeks in the hospital, fighting and beating the coronavirus. He’s now back at home, working his way through recovery, but he’s not done with the virus entirely just yet. The high school teacher just received his first itemized statement for the cost of his care: $840,386.94.
“Seeing that number yesterday for the first bill it kind of took your breath away again,” Robert’s wife Suzanne, who also beat the virus, told Denver7.
The statement covers Robert’s time at Sky Ridge Medical Center, where he was in the intensive care unit and intubated for two weeks.
“His meds just at the hospital are a quarter million dollars,” Suzanne said.
What is not included is Robert’s three weeks at Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital, or his wife’s trips to the emergency room when she was fighting the virus. The couple estimates their total bills to top one and a half million dollars.
“It’s scary. I don’t care how much you have covered. It’s scary to see that kind of number and not really know,” Suzanne said.
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Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:22 pm to rickgrimes
You can’t put a price on a human life.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:22 pm to rickgrimes
Looks like he met his deductible.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:22 pm to rickgrimes
Is this supposed to surprise me?
Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:24 pm to rickgrimes
We talking charges here? If he has insurance the cost will be netted down to the contractual amount. If no insurance they will just write it off to bad debt.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:25 pm to rickgrimes
Is anybody really surprised that hospitals are going to up charge patients treated with the virus?
Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:26 pm to rickgrimes
My auto accident back in 2001 me cost over a million dollars. Lucky for me, I had health insurance were I had to pay deductibles.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 4:50 pm to rickgrimes
He’s a teacher, right? Why would he be paying a bill like that?
Posted on 5/30/20 at 6:15 pm to WildcatMike
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My auto accident back in 2001 me cost over a million dollars. Lucky for me, I had health insurance were I had to pay deductibles.
I was seven when I got into a bad car accident, and my parent told me that the bill was "in the millions". I spent 8 months in ICU, though. I think they paid only a few thousand, though.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 6:19 pm to littleavery1948
Bill em high, bill em high, bill em high,
Bill em low, bill em low, bill em low
Bill em low, bill em low, bill em low
Posted on 5/30/20 at 6:20 pm to StringedInstruments
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He’s a teacher, right? Why would he be paying a bill like that?
Exactly. Nearly every school system in the country has good (at a minimum) benefits.
Dude probably just had to pay a $40 copay
Posted on 5/30/20 at 6:29 pm to StupidBinder
It doesn't quite work like that. First, you have a deductible and then you have out of pocket to meet. I'm gonna guess a couple of thousand out of pocket.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 6:31 pm to patnuh
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Looks like he met his deductible.
Not if he has an ACA plan.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 7:00 pm to jcaz
Change identity. Live off the grid for a bit. frick that shite.
Posted on 5/30/20 at 7:22 pm to littleavery1948
Heart surgery and 3.5 weeks in hospital with majority in icu over a million for my child
Posted on 5/30/20 at 7:26 pm to rickgrimes
Didn’t insurance companies agree to cover covid related costs???
And did he REALLY need to be hospitalized??
Maybe he did and was in icu on a vent. Who knows. But I’m sure there are some who would have early on been told to quarantine at home but now that the numbers are low, they may very well be admitting for “observation”.
And did he REALLY need to be hospitalized??
Maybe he did and was in icu on a vent. Who knows. But I’m sure there are some who would have early on been told to quarantine at home but now that the numbers are low, they may very well be admitting for “observation”.
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