I recently had major hip surgery with a 4 day hospital stay. Just got the bills yesterday. I’m curious what you guys would guess the amount the billed me? I’ll update the post in a few hours to reveal the amount but in the meantime I’m so curious what you would guess. Also what would a 4 day hospital stay cost in your country?
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Is your question how much the hospital would bill, how much the insurance company would pay, or how much I as an individual would have to pay? Because these are vastly different questions.
I have no idea. But I would guess operation might be 8000 dollars and maybe 200 dollars a night? So around 9000 dollars? I hope your insurance will cover some of it.
In my country (Lithuania) there is a table with prices somewhere for my local hospital and I could google that. But since I do have insurance, surgery would cost me 0, hospital stay would cost me 0, unless I could get a private room. Then it would be maybe 10-40 euros a night, deppending on the room. I might need some pain killers to take home, so I have to buy them myself. 10 tablets of ibuprofen cost around 4-5 euros.
I have really no idea. Also purchasing power will vary a lot. I would expect it to be the equivalent of an average employee’s 6-8 months wage.
In my country, insurance company is billed something around 1-2 months wage for hip replacement + some change for hospital stay.
Do you mean the actual cost or what you have to pay after the insurance?
Either way I have no idea. A hospital stay in Denmark is entirely free of charge (well tax finansed, but you dont have to pay anything out of pocket). You may have to pay for parcking your car or if you want extra snacks or a magazine from the kiosk, but that is it. There is even free wifi.
Hm.
Let‘s assume room and board to cost $200 per day.
Which makes $800.
Now, I just guess the surgery itself costs $10 000.
Add to that general administrative costs of I guess $500.
And the cost of medicine, which again, I just guess as being $3000.
Coming out to $14 300, so let‘s say an even $15 000?
If done in a public hospital and not private, I’d expect to not see a bill at all, or something symbolic like €50
In the USA? Dunno, it seems everything you do is insanely expensive, I’d say 60k before insurance?
15k USD? If you have insurance, you pay 1-2k copay, maybe?
Here, I don’t know how much would a similar stay cost, the billing goes completely around me. I could check it if I took the operation later, but I don’t have to. I have to pay state insurance anyway and I’m not limited in any way to visit doctors or undergo procedures, the insurance is always the same, based on my salary.
In reality, it “feels” like an additional income tax, in practice, it means that you don’t really consider money at all when dealing with health concerns.
People saying $200 a day for the room 🤣 You’d struggle to get a hotel for that these days & that isn’t full of specialised equipment & manned by several highly qualified staff on hand round the clock.
I’d say $5,000 per night.
Operation, scans, anesthesia etc I’d say $50,000.
So overall upwards of ~$70,000.
10k per day, so 40K (before insurance)?
I hang out on r/daddit so I’ve seen some crazy hospital bills in the 20k-100k range for births ranging from simple to cesarean.