Posted on 09/16/2021 12:31:34 AM PDT by blueplum
Hospitalizing Americans who aren't vaccinated against the coronavirus is leading to billions of dollars in unnecessary health care costs, according to a new analysis.
Over a recent three-month period, the cost of treating unvaccinated COVID-19 patients around the U.S. amounted to $5.7 billion, the report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and Peterson Center on Healthcare concluded. Drawing on hospital admissions and public health data, the groups based that estimate on the roughly 287,000 hospitalizations among unvaccinated people between June and August. They assumed the cost of their care at $20,000 per person, citing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data and other research....
...As of November 2020, nearly 90% of insured individuals would have had their out-of-pocket costs — including copays, coinsurance or payments toward a deductible — waived if they had been hospitalized for COVID-19, according to KFF.
Now, with vaccines widely available, more than 70% of the nation's largest insurers are no longer waiving COVID-19 treatment costs, according to Kaiser, which surveyed the two largest insurers in each state and Washington, D.C.. Another 10% of plans plan to phase out cost-sharing by the end of October....
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How much are the unvaccinated illegals costing us?
This could be a good thing. Doctors may stop using the fraudulent test on them when they really went into the hospital for something else if they find out they won’t get any money.
I don’t believe this. They have lied about everything so far.
Megan Cerullo ain't got time for impertinent questions.
Getting the unvaxxed rounded up and murdered like the Jews in 1941 Europe is the important thing.
Ha! Wait until the taliban “refugees” get here.
As an IT professional and report writer, I can GUARANTEE you that this is a load of rotting dogsqueezins.
They just made some bullsqueezins up, and fed it to this failed English major newspuppet, Megan Cerullo.
well, the $20K is right, unless ICU then it’s doubled. But I have no clue where to look to get the total hospitalized in the past three months.
My main concern is insurers refusing to pay after a certain date.
That would be $83,000 per case of covid hospitalization
Are they still waiving treatment costs for vaccinated?
I bet not.
Hospital pricing has a wide range, and an unsophisticated reporter will most likely quote whatever number is provided. Medical care costs are as bad as government spending - if the people in charge were subject to the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, most politicians would be in jail right now.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html
For some context here is the data for the Flu. But the Flu no big deal while Covid supposedly requires us to totally restrict the US Civil Liberties and restructure our economy?
“… Now, with vaccines widely available, more than 70% of the nation’s largest insurers are no longer waiving COVID-19 treatment costs, according to Kaiser, which surveyed the two largest insurers in each state and Washington, D.C.. Another 10% of plans plan to phase out cost-sharing by the end of October....…”
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Nope… I didn’t know this. My wife and I are vaccinated but if we happen to get COVID-19, we’ll FLY to get early outpatient treatment.
20000 x287000 = 5.74B how’d you come up with 83K?
How much for the vaccinated Americans that ended up in the hospital anyway?
Soaring through the roof: Vaccine deaths skyrocket
Vaccines Have NEGATIVE Effectiveness in the Over-40s, as Low as MINUS 38%, Shows New PHE Report
People who get treated with the hydroxychloriquine or Ivermectin cocktails never have to be hospitalized.
Not even close to the $85B of equipment that Joe Xiden gave to the Taliban.
Their estimate was inflated in order to manufacture more fear porn.
ed that estimate on the roughly 287,000 hospitalizations among unvaccinated people between June and August. They assumed the cost of their care at $20,000 per person, citing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data and other research....
Basically Insurance is now going to start to cover Covid exactly like every other hospitalization they cover from cancer to childbirth.
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