Health plans absorb hefty medical bills for COVID patients
Health insurance plans absorb hefty medical bills for COVID patients Hawaii hospital/FILE (Source: HNN) By Lynn Kawano | February 9, 2021 at 4:47 PM HST - Updated February 9 at 5:15 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - For those with severe cases of COVID-19, hospital stays can last weeks or even months. And that can mean significant medical costs. Coby Torda spent 69 days in the hospital and the bills quickly added up. “It was kind of alarming, It felt like a dark cloud over my head,” Torda said, adding that before his health insurance kicked in the costs totaled nearl $1 million...