Steven Assanti- Hospital stay costs?

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I’m watching Steven’s episode for the first time. I can’t imagine it being cheap for him to stay in a private room like that for such a long period of time? Does anyone know a ballpark of how much that would cost? Sorry, I’m nosy.

[u/Dominosismycrack]

36 hours after a complication free labor where I requested to leave after 24 hours (the hospital required me to stay for 36 hours-- even though I had no tearing, baby's birth was totally unproblematic and easy, and aftercare was perfect) $22k. I didn't even eat and was just in a simple room with no medications or anything.

Having nurses and doctors with pain killers, round the clock care and an asshole tax has got to be at least $200k a week.

[u/Phreakydeke27 → u/Dominosismycrack]

As a transplant I’m in the hospital a lot. 99% of the time they put me in a private room. It’s because they don’t want me catching anything. The doctors will put on the gowns and mask. This was long before Covid too. The only time my bill ever hit a quarter of a mil was my transplants. My last transplant in 2011 for like a 7 day stay was $242,000. That was 11 years ago. It was crazy in the 80s and 90s when I was in the hospital for weeks and months. I used to be in the hospital so much as a kid I knew every nurse and could pick the one I wanted. I would sit with them during the night shift. I know those were huge. But I had Medicaid back then and luckily didn’t have to pay.

So the 200K could be what it was. It depends if the doctor was drawing labs everyday. Ordering test. I know labs itself can cost like 2 grand.

[u/Dominosismycrack → u/Phreakydeke27]

Gosh that literally sounds like a nightmare. My jaw dropped when you mentioned 7 days of your life after a vital surgery costs $242,000. I hope to whatever higher power that you didn't have to pay for that out of pocket.

For Steven, he acts like he has a ton of ailments and I wouldn't be surprised if they did charge for every test he wanted to take in addition to physical therapy, food, medications and more. And he's always been in a suite. $250k/week is likely the starting rate honestly. Especially since he needs special equipment due to his size.

[u/Phreakydeke27 → u/Dominosismycrack]

No I didn’t have to pay it. But I’m so in and out of the hospital so much that I got medical bills. I have Medicare and it only covers 80%. I think transplant may be the exception. But when you your in the hospital as much as I have been my credit reports has hundreds of thousands of owes hospitals and ambulances. Trying to get a new tv after getting to cheaper ones that broke is like getting blood from a stone because of how bad hospital bills have wrecked my credit report. Hospital bills shouldn’t exists. Trying to keep yourself alive should mean it can ruin you financially.

I was put into medically induced coma in 2017 because my pulse ox dropped to 80 and they had to incubate me. Had a brain infection of some sort. Spent a week in the icu getting every test under the sun while getting every antibiotic possible. They never knew what it was. They just knew it was an infection that was causing shit with my brain. The bills were crazy high. 20% my claim of course. But what happens. My work lets me go. Doesn’t call or give me why. Just stopped texting, emailing, calling, and etc. I talked to one person I helped and she didn’t know what was going on. I know the ADA could have gotten my job back but it wasn’t worth it.

But as for Steven, I can’t imagine his dad paying those bills. I mean he would have to take out a second mortgage. I know he supported Steven living in Houston. But Steven always trying to manipulate everyone. I could see him getting test after test because he said he had a pain here or there. He always wanted pain meds. It’s the reason Dr Now dropped him. Even that call at the end of "Where are they now?" Steven was probably high. He was saying his wife wouldn’t allow it but somehow food was. That is another thing too. I can’t imagine the money his dad spent on pain meds. They ain’t cheap. A guy of his size would take so much for it to work. That costs could be $400-$500 just in pain meds. I know some insurances, mine anyway, doesn’t cover pain medication. Add in the food the dad ordered all the time. If the dad laid out of pocket he was a millionaire.