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Could you afford these expenses?
A critical illness or condition can stretch anyone's resources.
Could you afford to:
- Modify your home
- Purchase a wheelchair or other specialized equipment
- Hire a nurse, housekeeper or child care provider
- Seek timely or non-insured treatment outside Canada
- Pay outstanding loans or mortgages
- Replace a key employee
- Hire additional staff
How much do additional treatment, services and equipment cost?
Below are a few cost estimates for treatment, services and equipment,
which may be required for a critical illness or condition. Canadian
Dollars
| |
Canadian
Dollars |
| Wheelchair |
|
| Manual |
450 - 6,000 |
| Motorized |
3,500 - 16,000 |
| Scooter |
2,000 - 7,000 |
| Home care bed |
800 - 3,000 |
| Treatment at Mayo Clinic*
(Rochester, Minnesota) |
|
| Coronary artery bypass; 1-4
vessels, hospital stay 5-7 days |
89,900 - 114,700 |
| Modified radical
mastectomy; one breast, hospital stay 2-3 days |
25,110 - 31,000 |
| Radical prostatectomy, hospital
stay 2-3 days |
39,215 - 46,733 |
| Radiation therapy for cancer
for 6 weeks |
39,060 - 49,058 |
| Kidney transplant (living
donor) hospital stay 5-8 days |
147,250 - 178,250 |
| Heart transplant, hospital
stay 2-4 weeks |
248,000 - 372,000 |
| Private nursing (per hour) |
25 - 50 |
| Housekeeper (per hour) |
15 - 25 |
| Home Renovations |
|
| Ramp |
300 - 1,000 |
| Stair lift |
3,200 - 15,000 |
| Van conversion |
|
| Ramp |
300 - 1,000 |
| Wheelchair access |
13,000 - 20,000 |
| Driver total independence |
18,000 - 40,000 |
The cost estimates above are based on costs provided by a
limited number of health care institutions, suppliers and contractors
and are subject to change. They are intended to provide you with
some idea of the costs that may be experienced. Actual prices
for such treatment, services and equipment may vary significantly
from those shown above depending upon particular circumstances,
including many factors such as the supplier of the services and
the province of residence.Costs for treatment at Mayo Clinic have
been converted from US dollars to Canadian dollars assuming a
conversion rate of $1.55 Canadian to $1.00 US. Prices will vary
depending on, amongst other things, the length of hospital stay.
They do not include travel, food and lodging. For transplant surgeries,
medical expenses incurred while waiting are not included.
*Sources: Transplant Financial Services/Mayo Rochester, 2003
Estimating Services/Mayo Rochester, 2003
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