Ten Million Dollar Man

While this is still considered to be Opdivo Day and I receive my 30 minute infusion of an immunotherapy drug for Metastatic Melanoma, I am still ingesting two 140 mg tablets each day to prevent my Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma from growing as well.

The cost of my monthly Opdivo Infusions is roughly $33,000 each month which does not include the cost of the infusion room, the cost of the lab work that must be performed, or the doctor's visit which in my case is every other month.

So, one could easily estimate that this treatment alone is about $500,000 to $600,000 each year.

My Imbruvica pills that I take daily cost about $150,000 per year and the cost of 2 CT scans each year are $3,000 and 2 PET Scans is $10,000 per year...  so my annual costs are about just under $700,000 annually...

Now, does this mean that the Hospital that I go to actually pays that much or is each fee negotiated with the insurance company and the pharmaceutical company?  My guess is that negotiations are taking place all the time between those three...

To date, the retail price of my cancer treatments, various tests and procedures, and doctor's visits is probably around $10,000,000.