COVID-19 hospitalizations average $4,000 in out-of-pocket costs per visit, research says

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https://www.wdsu.com/article/covid-19-hospitalizations-average-cost/39141231
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN


Measures to protect patients hospitalized with COVID-19 from financial liability have been rolled back by most insurers in the United States, leaving the vast majority of patients with an average out-of-pocket bill of about $4,000 for each hospital stay, according to research published this week in the journal JAMA Network Open.

Between March 2020 and January 2021, less than 9% of patients with private health care insurance had any cost-sharing associated with COVID-19 hospitalization. By March 2021, more than 84% of patients with private insurance had some financial responsibility for a COVID-19 hospitalization.


A separate analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that cost-sharing waivers have now expired for more than 94% of the largest health insurance plans. The vast majority had rolled them back by August 2021, when COVID-19 vaccines were widely available to the general public.

Patients insured under the Medicare Advantage program saw a similar jump in cost-sharing responsibilities, from less than 3% in the first year of the pandemic up to 66% in March 2021.

From March 2020 through March 2021 – spanning periods when cost-sharing waivers were both widespread and rolled back – the average COVID-19 hospitalization cost privately insured patients an average of $3,998 out-of-pocket. Average costs were highest in the Western region of the U.S. and lowest in the Northeast.

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For this study, researchers from the University of Michigan and Boston University analyzed medical claims for nearly 16,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19 as their primary diagnosis.

The researchers suggest that the "widespread abandonment of insurer cost-sharing waivers is arguably premature."

"While the potential size of these bills may convince a few patients to become vaccinated, it could also prompt patients to delay seeking care irrespective of vaccination status, as both the vaccinated and unvaccinated are both now subject to cost-sharing," they wrote.

Nearly 69,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States, with more than 9,500 new admissions each day, according to federal data. Although hospitalizations have dropped to less than half of what they were at the peak of the omicron wave in January, they're still higher than they've been for most of the pandemic.

In December, the risk of hospitalization was 44 times higher for unvaccinated adults than it was for adults who were fully vaccinated and boosted, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 

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Most Black American Households Only Have $855 In Checking Accounts, Nobody Uses Savings Accounts

62% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings

Could You Cover a $2000 Emergency Right Now?
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Spend $4000 on a hospital visit :hula: Be amongst the hundreds of athletes who have died from the vaccine

I know where I'm at, word to the point GOAT

Do scientists really think they can assist me better than the all time assists leader? :leostare:
 

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source for your claim?:feedme:

Q&A: John Stockton talks Gonzaga basketball suspension, COVID-19 vaccine opposition and more

Stockton:
“And I think it’s highly recorded now, there’s 150 I believe now – it’s over 100 professional athletes dead, professional athletes, the prime of their life, dropping dead that are vaccinated, right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court. There’s 20,000 deaths from the vaccine that the CDC acknowledges from their VAERS system, which they acknowledge accounts for only 1% of actual. So the actual numbers more than likely are much larger than that, but that’s what they’re actually willing to concede. They shut down previous vaccine systems for 25 deaths and we’re well over 20,000 again that they concede. Over a million injuries.


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oh you're repeating what some other guy who didn't provide sources said :skip:



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Stockton claimed over 100 professional athletes who are vaccinated are "dropping dead, right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court."

This is not backed up by any science or actual data. There have been no official reports linking the vaccines to heart issues in athletes and sports cardiologists said they haven’t seen athletes collapse after getting vaccinated against the virus.

Lists of athletes this has supposedly happened to have included people who didn’t die, didn’t get the vaccine, or had a family history of heart issues.

We rate this False.

don't be vague, name names and sources. :feedme:
 
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oh you're repeating what some other guy who didn't provide sources said :skip:

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don't be vague, name names and sources. :feedme:

Think you can assist people better than the all time assist leader brehs

Think you a better decision maker than the GOAT Pick n Roll decision maker brehs
 

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Thankfully there are vaccines; a pill(Pfizer pill), and monoclonal antibodies for those who are at greater risk of hospilaztion (elderly, immunocompromised, having comorbidities)
 
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