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<blockquote data-quote="Darmark7" data-source="post: 5025558" data-attributes="member: 83127">When one factors in the length of stay, the average hospital charge increased the longer patients were there, and they continued to vary by age group. The cost of hospital stays over 15 days jumped significantly.Commercial payers are expected to bear the majority of those costs, with Avalere projecting they could pay between $5.6 billion and $9.9 billion. Medicare will pay the second largest portion, between $3.5 billion and $6.2 billion, which also includes the treatment of uninsured patients. Federal and state Medicaid payments are expected to range from $440 million to $780 million.&nbsp;The cost of hospitalizations, on top of any other required treatments for COVID-19, could total $546.6 billionKaiser Family Foundation looked at average Medicare payments for hospital admissions for the existing diagnosis-related groups and noted that the “average Medicare payment for respiratory infections and inflammations with major comorbidities or complications in 2017 … was $13,297. For more severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for a respiratory system diagnosis with ventilator support for greater than 96 hours, which was $40,218.” That’s a heck of an insensitive to put a person on a ventilator.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darmark7, post: 5025558, member: 83127"] When one factors in the length of stay, the average hospital charge increased the longer patients were there, and they continued to vary by age group. The cost of hospital stays over 15 days jumped significantly. Commercial payers are expected to bear the majority of those costs, with Avalere projecting they could pay between $5.6 billion and $9.9 billion. Medicare will pay the second largest portion, between $3.5 billion and $6.2 billion, which also includes the treatment of uninsured patients. Federal and state Medicaid payments are expected to range from $440 million to $780 million. The cost of hospitalizations, on top of any other required treatments for COVID-19, could total $546.6 billion Kaiser Family Foundation looked at average Medicare payments for hospital admissions for the existing diagnosis-related groups and noted that the “average Medicare payment for respiratory infections and inflammations with major comorbidities or complications in 2017 … was $13,297. For more severe hospitalizations, we use the average Medicare payment for a respiratory system diagnosis with ventilator support for greater than 96 hours, which was $40,218.” [B] That’s a heck of an insensitive to put a person on a ventilator[/B]. [/QUOTE]

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