Cost and Value of Services at the Emergency Department
When you come to the public hospital, often the real cost is not shown.
For RM1 that you pay at the Emergency Department of Ministry of Health hospitals, you typically get :
1. Consultation - which can even go to consultant level (RM200)
2. X-Ray
(RM 100)
3. Ultrasound for some cases (RM 150)
4. CT scan for some cases (RM 500)
5. Blood tests (RM 150)
6. Drugs (RM 150)
TOTAL = RM 1250
You pay RM1. We absorb RM1249
*conservative estimates. Will be more if fluids, Antibiotics, painkiller injections, nursing services and bed use/accommodation for observation and charting costs included. More costs if patient requires resuscitation, procedures, ventilators.
For outpatient treatment at the Emergency Department with simple fever but requiring blood tests, CXR, antibiotics and observation (no CT SCAN, Ultrasound) the estimated cost is RM 500.
You pay RM1 and we absorb RM499.
We just hope you don't value us as only RM1.
Because we know our worth
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