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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 03:42 PM Jun 2020

How much will Remdesivir cost patients? $500-600/DAY

https://www.wesh.com/article/heres-how-much-remdesivir-a-drug-used-to-treat-covid-19-patients-will-cost/33002007
Gilead Sciences, the company that makes the COVID-19 drug, announced in an open letter on Monday morning that it has decided to set a price of $390 per vial for the U.S. government, which would include Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense hospitals, and other governments of developed countries. But the discounted price will not include Medicare or Medicaid.

A typical five-day treatment course would include six vials, which would equate to $2,340 per patient, Daniel O'Day, Gilead Sciences chairman and CEO, said in the letter.

The U.S. government will continue to manage U.S. allocations of remdesivir to hospitals through September, the company said.

The letter added that the price for U.S. private insurance companies will be $520 per vial, which would total $3,120 per patient for a five-day treatment course of six vials.



As if existing hospital bills and lack of employment aren't enough...
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cayugafalls

(5,629 posts)
6. We can only hope. There is so much to choose from lately, I am sure they
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 03:50 PM
Jun 2020

are having a hard time figuring out what to pick for their next ad!

It is a never ending parade of stupidity and criminality.

How much more can we take?

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
10. My in-network hospital writes off most of that through Blue Cross
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 04:07 PM
Jun 2020

So it would be close to the same cost.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. On the other hand, if it gets you out of the hospital even a day or so earlier, it pays for itself.
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 03:49 PM
Jun 2020

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
7. Not that this administration will do it...
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 03:50 PM
Jun 2020

But Medicaid should cover the Bill's for covid patients. We need them to feel free to go to a clinic or the hospital and to quit work... for OUR sake. They need to get quarantined and treated and not worry about the cost.

I hope biden comes in with the willingness to spend a trillion or more getting us past this... whether it's paying to install great air purifiers in every restaurant and office building and giving free healthcare to anyone who needs it.

This should be a public project like electrification was, and the interstate system, and WPA. We can always find a trillion for a war or a tax cut. We can find a trillion or more to save the country.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,021 posts)
13. "will not include Medicare or Medicaid" -- Then they shouldn't be allowed to sell in the U.S.
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 06:23 PM
Jun 2020

We create and fund our government for protection, which includes regulation. This is a situation that needs regulating.

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