January's salary is hard to last a day.
Outside the ICU ward, we can see many family members waiting anxiously at the door, crying and even losing sleep. The survey shows that patients spend about 2000-20000 yuan in ICU every day, mostly between 6000- 1 10,000 yuan. Most people live in ordinary working families, and the monthly salary of parents or children is not enough to pay for the treatment of patients for one day, which has become very common in ICU. In such a special scene, their mood is quite heavy. On the one hand, they can't bear the pain of the death of their loved ones, on the other hand, they can't bear the heavy cost of ICU treatment.
Mr. Deng said: "Now we are in a dilemma. The newborn baby has been admitted to the ICU since the beginning of July, and the baby choked when feeding. Its limbs were black when it was found. I'm living on a ventilator now. Now it has cost more than 300 thousand. After my savings were used up, I sold my hometown homestead and still felt that the treatment fee was a "bottomless pit". "Indeed, living in the ICU ward, patients need to pay high medical expenses every day.
The medical staff are saving the patient.
Why is the ICU charge so high?
Expensive hardware
The ICU ward is equipped with many medical equipment that is not available in ordinary wards. These advanced equipment and instruments can provide more advanced life support for critically ill patients. There is a central monitoring system and philipMX500 monitors, each equipped with a basic monitoring module and dual invasive blood pressure. In addition, it is equipped with PICCO module, end-expiratory carbon dioxide detection module, transfer monitor, ventilator, Baxter Jinbao Prisma Flex blood filter, photoelectric biphasic defibrillator, 12 electrocardiograph, microinjection pump, infusion pump, rapid blood glucose meter, airbag pressure monitoring table, mild hypothermia therapeutic instrument, etc.
First aid medicine is very expensive.
Patients with ICU infection need expensive high-grade antibiotics to fight infection. In addition, supplemented by various drugs for symptomatic treatment, the cost of drugs will be high, and patients need to use blood products, which is also very expensive. Many items and imported drugs are not covered by medical insurance reimbursement. Imported drugs used by ICU patients are frequently used and expensive, which has become a burden for patients' families.
The patient's condition changes rapidly and needs timely rescue.
Because of the rapid change of illness, doctors need to know the current situation of patients at any time in addition to real-time monitoring, and patients living in ICU face frequent examinations. Various blood and biochemical indexes are often checked repeatedly within one day. In addition, the intensity of medical staff on duty is high, and there are many rescues for patients, which also leads to high expenses. Severe patients often need to be rescued in ICU because of their unstable condition, and sometimes they need to do tracheotomy on the spot.
There are certain standards for charging.
Due to the limitation of the medical insurance reimbursement catalogue, the drugs and treatments used to rescue patients in ICU are often unable to obtain medical insurance reimbursement. 30% to 40% patients often choose to give up treatment because their families are poor and "wait for death" in general wards. However, there are standards for ICU fees, which are not casually said by hospitals. At present, the charging standard of ICU is uniformly stipulated by all provinces and cities. On June 65438+1 October1day, 2006, the new standard "Guangzhou Central, Military, Armed Police and Provincial Non-profit Medical Institutions Medical Service Price" jointly issued by Guangdong Provincial Price Bureau and Guangdong Provincial Health Department came into effect. Due to the high cost of nursing treatment in ICU, it has become the key department of charge management, with strict and detailed specifications and corresponding explanations.
Every patient who is sent to ICU carries the care and expectation of his family. In the ward, patients try their best to survive, and medical staff try their best to treat them. Life is priceless, but it needs money to save it.