{"id":444,"date":"2008-06-21T19:41:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T00:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/06\/21\/annual-costs-of-heart-disease\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:28:12","slug":"annual-costs-of-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/06\/21\/annual-costs-of-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annual Costs Of Heart Disease&#8230; Oh My Gawd!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst patients, the costs of heart surgery can be a delicate discussion. As you can read, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/costs-fees-estimates-money-insurance.php\">costs of heart valve surgery<\/a> vary from patient-to-patient.<\/p>\n<p>To some extent, the initial billings associated with fees from the hospital, the surgeon, the anesthesiologist and the cardiologist can make your jaw drop to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"American Heart Association\" alt=\"American Heart Association\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/american-heart.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"100\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of what your heart surgery cost will be, I was just reading a fascinating report by the American Heart Association. According to a 2006 study, the AHA believes that the total annual cost of heart disease is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take a guess&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Really&#8230; Venture a guess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>$258 BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR!!! (Yes. That was with a &#8216;B&#8217; for billlllllllion.) You should know that estimate includes medical services, medications and lost productivity from people affected with heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>My jaw just dropped to the floor again.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}