The antivenom used on the boy accounts for $213,278.80 of the medical bill.
“I thought he was going to die. We all thought he was going to die,” Brigland’s mother, Lindsay Pfeffer, told
A family in San Diego was charged $297,461 in medical bills after their two-year-old boy, Brigland Pfeffer, was bitten by a rattlesnake in his backyardThe boy was then transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit at Rady Children’s Hospital, the largest children’s hospital on the West Coast, where he received more antivenom. In the end, it took 30 vials of antivenom to treat him.“Nobody understands how he’s alive. This is underheard of why he actually made it,” Pfeffer said.
Meanwhile, Rady Children’s Hospital charged $5,876.64 for each vial, totaling $117,532.80 for the 20 vials Brigland received there.
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