The Cost of an ACL Injury
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The Cost of an ACL Injury
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Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#2I was expecting this to be about Access Control Lists being slow or requiring more complex security reasoning (vs owner/group/other). It's not, it's about health care and injuries and something that's part of your knee.
Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#3I was expecting this to be about Access Control Lists being slow or requiring more complex security reasoning (vs owner/group/other). It's not, it's about health care and injuries and something that's part of your knee.
Good point, updated the title to be a bit more clear.
Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#4Why don't the medical tools get reused? That seems absolutely insane to me.
Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#5Why don't the medical tools get reused? That seems absolutely insane to me.
Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#6Why don't the medical tools get reused? That seems absolutely insane to me.
Yeah I also don't get that. Would they not be able to just be disinfected and resealed?
Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#7I'd be interested in seeing this analysis using what the actual final cost incurred was (normally the fees you are shown are negotiated down by your insurance company to the amount they actually pay).
Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#8Excellent read.
One point on disposing of fancy, potentially reusable, tools: We do more than a little precision machining in our lab. When a job matters, the shop buys new tooling. It's lower in cost, especially time, than verifying that a tool is sharp and correct.
At first, it seems wasteful to throw away a once-used tool, but if all you do is critical work, you must be certain that your tools are reliable and correct. Once you have a complete set of nice hand-me-down spares squirreled away for coarse work, any subsequent used tools go in the recycle bin.
For the computer-inclined, this practice is no different from taking a perfectly functional linux installation you've used for a little while for a side project and using it on a mission-critical task. It's easier and more reliable to reformat and reinstall than to inherit whatever curiosities might emerge from the past.
When quality matters, provenance matters.
Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#9This is absolutely shocking to me. Had my ACL replaced in the UK privately about 8 years ago (no health insurance, paid out of pocket). Total cost was £3000 (+ £600 for initial scan). I could have got it done for free on the NHS but it would have messed up my term time at university.
Like the OP I had meniscal tearing too so more or less directly comparable. (Although obviously 8 years is probably a long time in medical devices so worth bearing in mind).
To put in perspective, that is approximate the same total cost (~$5000) as just _one_ of the pieces of equipment ("Cannula Fast Fix CVD") that the OP lists.
It's one thing if doctors are more expensive because they have to carry higher insurance charges to protect against negligence lawsuits, etc, but that the equipment alone is multiple times the cost seems crazy.
Mental.
Re: The Cost of an ACL Injury
#10For comparison, the full cost of a hernia repair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inguinal_hernia_repair) in a private hospital in Poland is below $1500. Sure, this is a much simpler procedure than the OP's one, but still -- it involves an operating room, a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, assistants/nurses, and 2 days of hospital care. I don't imagine the materials are much different to the ones used in the US.
Even accounting for the lower cost of labor, the prices in the US are insane.