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How much does it cost the government to keep someone in hospital overnight?

  • 02-01-2015 4:26pm
    #1
    Huell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭


    I'm doing an essay for college and just a rough estimate (for example a patient recovering from a prostatectomy) how much does it cost the state to keep them overnight?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    masterboy123
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    to the patient it costs 800 euros/night if no insurance or medical card available.


  • #3
    Vorsprung
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    The actual cost is a large multiple of the cost to the patient you mention above (or the 75 euro per night if you don't have insurance or a medical card).


  • #4
    Dingle_berry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Dingle_berry


    Vorsprung wrote: »
    The actual cost is a large multiple of the cost to the patient you mention above (or the 75 euro per night if you don't have insurance or a medical card).

    +1, a very large multiple. Also very variable depending on what the patient is there for and the hospital. A surgical case may require more staff than a bad case of flu, the hospital may be heavily dependent on agency staff, may use a third party pathology service, etc. But the patient still pays €75 per night for the first x nights if no insurance or medical card


  • #5
    ProfessorPlum
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    Article from CUH last year estimated the actual average cost of an ICU bed to be €2500.

    I actually thought that sounded cheap!

    Medicalindependant.ie
    Breathing new life into ICUs


  • #6
    Huell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭Huell


    ProfessorPlum wrote: »
    Article from CUH last year estimated the actual average cost of an ICU bed to be €2500.

    I actually thought that sounded cheap!

    Medicalindependant.ie
    Breathing new life into ICUs
    thank you by any chance do you have a link to that article?


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  • #7
    ProfessorPlum
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    Huell wrote: »
    thank you by any chance do you have a link to that article?

    I do, but you'll have to wait til I'm at a keyboard (on phone). The title is as above, and it was published in the medical independant, dr Brian O'Brien was the source of the stat - you should find it with google if I don't get a link up. It runs thru equivalent costs in US, Canada etc too. Hope it's helpful to you.


  • #8
    spurious
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    Here's that link: http://www.medicalindependent.ie/21236/breathing_new_life_into_icus


  • #9
    sleepyheadh
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    300euro for a ward bed and 3500 for a bed in the ICU! Roughly.


  • #10
    Extrasupervery
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,029 ✭✭✭Extrasupervery


    Christ. I'm remembering all of the patients I've had who stayed an extra night or two due to the fact that there was no junior doc around to write their discharge summary, or no transport available for them...and the patients who stay in beds in highly specialised wards for months awaiting decisions about long term care and the likes. Money money money.


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