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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2981174" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-gun-violence-medical-costs-met-20170720-story.html" target="_blank">The bill for treating a gunshot wound: $21,000 for the first 35 minutes</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The bill for treating a gunshot wound: $21,000 for the first 35 minutes</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>An unprecedented analysis of state data by the Tribune reveals that the initial medical costs for treating Chicago gunshot victims add up to tens of millions of dollars each year. And those costs are rising.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The data — obtained by the Tribune after months of negotiation with public officials — show that Chicago-area hospitals billed more than $447 million to treat some 12,000 documented victims of gun violence in the city between 2009 and mid-2016.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>And even that figure represents just a fraction of the total billed. While the hospitals charge for room and board as well as equipment and drugs, the surgeons, anesthesiologists and other medical professionals who treat gunshot victims in emergency rooms across the city typically bill separately.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The data show that the victims who bear the physical and emotional scars of being shot live mostly in economically depressed and racially segregated neighborhoods. But the financial burden of caring for survivors of gunshot wounds extends well beyond neighborhood boundaries, according to the Tribune analysis.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>In fact, patients who live in poverty and are insured through the publicly funded <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/health/healthcare/medicaid-HEPRG00001-topic.html" target="_blank">Medicaid</a> and <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/health/healthcare/medicare-HEPRG00002-topic.html" target="_blank">Medicare</a> programs account for nearly half of the costs analyzed by the Tribune.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2981174, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-gun-violence-medical-costs-met-20170720-story.html"]The bill for treating a gunshot wound: $21,000 for the first 35 minutes[/URL] [SIZE=6][B]The bill for treating a gunshot wound: $21,000 for the first 35 minutes[/B] [B][/B] [B]An unprecedented analysis of state data by the Tribune reveals that the initial medical costs for treating Chicago gunshot victims add up to tens of millions of dollars each year. And those costs are rising. The data — obtained by the Tribune after months of negotiation with public officials — show that Chicago-area hospitals billed more than $447 million to treat some 12,000 documented victims of gun violence in the city between 2009 and mid-2016. And even that figure represents just a fraction of the total billed. While the hospitals charge for room and board as well as equipment and drugs, the surgeons, anesthesiologists and other medical professionals who treat gunshot victims in emergency rooms across the city typically bill separately. The data show that the victims who bear the physical and emotional scars of being shot live mostly in economically depressed and racially segregated neighborhoods. But the financial burden of caring for survivors of gunshot wounds extends well beyond neighborhood boundaries, according to the Tribune analysis. In fact, patients who live in poverty and are insured through the publicly funded [URL='http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/health/healthcare/medicaid-HEPRG00001-topic.html']Medicaid[/URL] and [URL='http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/health/healthcare/medicare-HEPRG00002-topic.html']Medicare[/URL] programs account for nearly half of the costs analyzed by the Tribune. [/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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