As
Bobbi Kristina Brown fights for her life after being found face-down
and unresponsive in her bathtub on Jan. 31, the ongoing struggle is
clearly taking an emotional toll on her family. It is also likely taking a growing financial toll. Brown, the 22-year-old daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston,
was rushed to North Fulton Hospital in Roswell, Georgia on Jan. 31. She
was later moved to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and reportedly
transferred to a medical rehabilitation facility at the end of March. As
time goes on, the bill for her health care ticks up. But just how much is Brown’s treatment costing? TheWrap
spoke to Paul Hughes-Cromwick, senior health economist at the Center
for Sustainable Health Spending at the Altarum Institute, which seeks to
solve complex systems problems to improve human health, to determine
the financial cost.
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“It
could be the case where they have to pay full charges just because
they’re famous and they’re supposed to have a lot of money,”
Hughes-Cromwick said. “And maybe they don’t have an insurance plan that
has done this kind of negotiating with the provider.”
Based on Hughes-Cromwick’s assessment, a 60-day hospital stay would start somewhere between and $60,000 and $120,000.
The
cost of Brown’s stay in the rehabilitation facility is clearer.
Admittance in a rehab location, Hughes-Cromwick noted, entails “very
high costs — as much as a couple thousand dollars or more per day.”
Ballparking on that estimate, Brown’s stay at the rehabilitation facility so far could conceivably have a price tag in the $165,000 range after about 11 weeks, and counting. Credit to Yahoo news.
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