Hospitals do not bill the government for what those services are worth.
The government pays what it wants to pay.
That bill was a listing of what the hospital would normally charge.
It is nowhere near what it actually receives.
Most hospitals these days are barely scraping by.
of course you’re right. I doubt medicare paid that much, too. But I almost had a heart attack over the heart attack bill until I saw the bottom line. Just kind of hard to digest that 4 hours in ICU, one day for an angioplasty/stent, and 2 days in recovery cost so much nowadays. That’s like, 3 cars or half a house! And I thought the vet was expensive! Two years ago a bill like that would have bankrupted us.
Which makes me wonder, these CV folks are in the hospital a minimum of 10 days for recovery and we’re going on 30 days for some of the others? The cost must be astronomical per patient.