Heart Transplants

Robbie Comeau

Robbie Comeau

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Hey guys,

Just writing a script here and need some insight on the heart transplant process.

I know they range from the 50k-150k range, but how can a family afford to pay off a heart transplant?

I know this may sound silly, but can they pay it off monthly/yearly.....Get a loan from someone?

How does something like this work?

Robbie
 
Zak Forsman said:
you're in canada, right? ask michael moore.
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BWAHAHAHAHA






Robbie, first you have to get on a waiting list for the transplant. Then when your time comes up you get the operation. I'm not sure insurance or getting a loan or having money up front plays that big a part. I've never heard or read anything like that anyway.

I should think a person's need, age, and current health dictate whether they get one.

Usually when a person gets a monsterous hospital bill, they pay it in monthly installments (not counting their or someone else's insurance) like any other.
 
Actually, there is a lot of politics involved when it comes down to who gets in line and where. I've heard of people in need getting passed over by people with green. Or in Canada, I guess it would be pink and blue, or whatever color your currency is.
 
It depends on the country, in some countries it's free in others no.....but I don't know more details....
 
Matt Grunau said:
BWAHAHAHAHA

Robbie, first you have to get on a waiting list for the transplant. Then when your time comes up you get the operation. I'm not sure insurance or getting a loan or having money up front plays that big a part. I've never heard or read anything like that anyway.

I should think a person's need, age, and current health dictate whether they get one.

Usually when a person gets a monsterous hospital bill, they pay it in monthly installments (not counting their or someone else's insurance) like any other.
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Matt's right. But most of the cases I have seen, the family is more preoccupied with the family member to really be concerned about it right then. They know that there is a bill to be paid (whether by insurance or themselves), but that will be dealt with later. If the case qualifies, occasionally the hospital or surgeon will do the case pro bono, especially if the case is out of the ordinary. Keep in mind, this is in the US, other countries have different rules/laws.

Also keep in mind, there is more than one bill to be paid. The surgeon, the Primary Care Physician, the anesthesiologist, the hospital (both for pre and post op care, nursing staff, expendables, and the use of the surgical suite and instrumentation), will all bill for their services. It won't be just one bill, but a bunch of different ones.
 
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Actually the heart itself is free, the procurement is not (yet another set of bills, Robbie). In the US, there are laws about selling organs for transplant.
 
Exchanging a transplantable organ for any kind of valuable consideration at all is illegal in the United States (was a prospective kidney donor a few years ago).

The friend who was to have received the kidney was covered for the full cost of the procedures under his own health insurance, which was actually part of the German national system. Would have covered me, too, as the donor.

These links have some heart-transplant-specific FAQs, plus links where you can hopefully find out what you need.

http://www.uwhealth.org/transplant/hearttransplantfrequentlyaskedquestions/10569

http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/5592.html
 
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robbie, if you are thinking about donating your heart you will need a tub, some ice, and a jelly fish.
 
Robbie....does your script dwell on just the surgery and its costs or goes past to recovery and aftercare? Meds to "maintain" after surgery is about $2-3,000 a month
 
It's about a pool player trying to raise money for his little brother's heart transplant.

But in one of the scenes, it's the mother telling her son to just quit while he's ahead, 'cause the surgery is to expensive.

Robbie
 
Robbie Comeau said:
The kid is 7.

Poor family.

Thanks everyone,

Robbie
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http://organdonations.ca/
http://www.transplant.ca/pubinfo_orgtiss.htm

Here's an article that might be helpful...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organ-donation/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501077&objectid=10485933

djkarn105 said:
you should ask Jason Statham
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OMG. I was going to say you can live for an hour with a battery powered heart but if it fails rub up against someone.

ugafan said:
robbie, if you are thinking about donating your heart you will need a tub, some ice, and a jelly fish.
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Nice one. Will Smith would be happy to know you saw the film.

-Nate
 
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