Russia (bbabo.net), - Covid-19 treatment costs an average of 120 thousand rubles. Elena Chernyakova, Chairman of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, spoke about this in an interview.

“The average cost of medical care during hospitalization under the state guarantees program is 36,000 rubles per person. And the treatment of coronavirus costs an average of 120,000 rubles. In total, about 530 billion rubles were spent last year alone in the compulsory medical insurance system for the treatment of coronavirus infection,” she said. This money comes from both the CHI fund budget and the federal budget. More than 220 billion rubles are planned for the current year. As the situation with morbidity develops, decisions on the amount of funding for these purposes will be adjusted.

And in total there are four tariffs for paying for the treatment of COVID-19, depending on the form of the course of the disease - mild, moderate, severe and extremely severe - from 60,000 to 270,000 rubles per person, Chernyakova specified.

Last year, almost 20 percent of hospitalizations of the total number were patients with coronavirus infection. 37 percent of the round-the-clock hospital funding was spent on their treatment.

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