rainerann
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maybe I’m bored but I looked up how much an icu visit costs while on a ventilator versus without. I knew it was a lot because the cost of the nurses is factored in and icu nurses are on the high end of the pay scale for nurses.
it turns out that someone did a study on this subject in 2005.
“Mean intensive care unit cost and length of stay were 31,574 +/- 42,570 dollars and 14.4 days +/- 15.8 for patients requiring mechanical ventilation and 12,931 +/- 20,569 dollars and 8.5 days +/- 10.5 for those not requiring mechanical ventilation. Daily costs were greatest on intensive care unit day 1 (mechanical ventilation, 10,794 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 6,667 dollars), decreased on day 2 (mechanical ventilation:, 4,796 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 3,496 dollars), and became stable after day 3 (mechanical ventilation, 3,968 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 3,184 dollars).”
i don’t know how much more this would be in the year 2020, but just so everyone is aware. Hospitals are not making extra money putting people on ventilators for covid. They are making enough to cover their costs since they wouldn’t be reimbursed at all without a way to code the patients stay since covid didn’t exist as a billing code before a couple of months ago.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
it turns out that someone did a study on this subject in 2005.
“Mean intensive care unit cost and length of stay were 31,574 +/- 42,570 dollars and 14.4 days +/- 15.8 for patients requiring mechanical ventilation and 12,931 +/- 20,569 dollars and 8.5 days +/- 10.5 for those not requiring mechanical ventilation. Daily costs were greatest on intensive care unit day 1 (mechanical ventilation, 10,794 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 6,667 dollars), decreased on day 2 (mechanical ventilation:, 4,796 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 3,496 dollars), and became stable after day 3 (mechanical ventilation, 3,968 dollars; no mechanical ventilation, 3,184 dollars).”
i don’t know how much more this would be in the year 2020, but just so everyone is aware. Hospitals are not making extra money putting people on ventilators for covid. They are making enough to cover their costs since they wouldn’t be reimbursed at all without a way to code the patients stay since covid didn’t exist as a billing code before a couple of months ago.
Daily cost of an intensive care unit day: the contribution of mechanical ventilation - PubMed
Intensive care unit costs are highest during the first 2 days of admission, stabilizing at a lower level thereafter. Mechanical ventilation is associated with significantly higher daily costs for patients receiving treatment in the intensive care unit throughout their entire intensive care unit...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
