Hospitals charge people for blood transfusions.. and organs transplants can be tens of thousands of dollars.. i find it hard to believe that the surgery itself would cost that much. My fear is that the institutions that collect them sell them to the hospitals to make money.. in turn forcing the hospital to charge the patient for it as well.. or even just the hospital charging for it for profit. Does anyone know how this works?
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At least in the US, unless you go to some dodgy place, they’re usually harvested in a hospital. Hospitals are part of a national organ database and that organization ( which is nonprofit I think) has the list of those needing organs and their medical matching info. That’s who generally decides where they go and no one is paid for them. In the US any surgery is very expensive and transplants are complicated surgeries, hence the high charges.
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