Recovered COVID-19 Patient Felt Sick When Receiving His Rs 8.36 Crore Bill

On March 4, 70-year-old Michael Flor was admitted to a hospital in the US. When he was discharged from the hospital, the staff there described him as a miracle. However, he also got another nickname, thanks to the treatment cost in the US healthcare system, “the million-dollar baby.”

When Flor woke up from a coma, he was enraged when hearing the discussion about the coronavirus, whether or not it was real. At the time, he told the press: “I’m back from the dead, and I can tell you... This will kick your butt.”

Shortly after Flor was admitted to the hospital, before he fell into the coma, he asked his spouse Elisa Del Rosario to take him somewhere else because they couldn’t afford the treatment.

He was isolated in a sealed room that only staff with a hazmat suit resembling isolation gear was allowed to access. For each day in that room, he was charged Rs 7.4 lakh ($9,736). As a result, after being isolated for 42 days, they charged him a total of Rs 3.11 crore ($408,912).

In addition, they used a mechanical ventilator on him for 29 days, which cost Rs 2.15 lakh ($2,835) per day. The total amount for this was Rs 62.54 lakh ($82,215).

The doctors used everything they know in the medical field to keep the man alive for 2 days when multiple of his organs were failing. Billing for that phase takes up 20 pages and the total cost is Rs 76 lakh ($100,000). Overall, the bill consisted of 3,000 charges.

Fortunately, the good news is Flor won’t likely have to pay much of this bill, if he even has to pay, thanks to their Congress aid and Medicare insurance. To encourage people to get diagnosis and treatment, Congress put aside $100 billion while the cost of COVID-19 could go up to $500 billion and many groups are urging Congress to raise the support.

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