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Holiday Medical Costs Add Up

Are you buying gifts for the holidays? You might want to budget for a few additional costs. DuringHoliday Ladder 12.15 the holiday season, there is an estimated 80,000 injured people due to accidentally over-celebrating during the holiday season. From Thanksgiving to New Year’s, emergency room and hospital admissions increase each year. This is a common trend, but are you aware of the associated Holiday Medical Costs?

Over-Celebrating Holiday Medical Cost Statistics

  • Overall 6,000 people go to the ER due to holiday decorating injuries each year
  • 250 injuries a day, on average, during the holiday season
  • 1 in 6 Americans end up with food poisoning
  • Holiday lights alone burn, cut, or other about 350 people
  • Holiday trees injured 1,000 people last year

Holiday injuries include falls, cuts/lacerations, burns, and poisoning. The medical costs associated with these injuries could impact your spending budget:

Holiday Tree 12.151.  An emergency room visit on average costs $423

2. Food poisoning costs Americans anywhere from $54B to as high as $78B each year.                             There are roughly 13M cases reports across the U.S.

3. Visits for burns start at $1,000, going upwards of $5,000 for pediatric or complex cases.

Americans spend $882 dollars on average on the holidays, as reported by the American Research group. There is nothing like the costs of a little over-celebration accident to really break the budget.

On a positive note, it is a great time of year to get an elective surgery. Most people utilize holiday time to obtain surgeries or other procedures, where recovery is only a few days. People are back to work, soon after the holiday.

Happy Holidays! Holiday Lights 12.15

Citations/Interesting Articles

https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/resource-center/affordable-care-act/holidays-health-care-numbers
http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/2014/CPSC-Estimates-More-Than-15000-Holiday-Decorating-Injuries-During-November-and-December/
http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/emergency-room-visits-by-ownership/
http://www.foodpoisoningnews.com/food-poisoning-costs-americans-upwards-78-billion-annually/http://www.poison.org/articles/2013-apr/food-poisoning
http://ercare24.com/costs-of-going-to-the-emergency-room/