After all, therapy costs money in this economically competitive world.
"I was a poor artist and therapy costs money, and it looked like an easy way to get what I needed," one said.
If the victim does not press felony charges, they cannot have hospital charges, medication and therapy costs covered; they cannot recover lost wages; nor will they be eligible to file a restraining order.
The entire process — including screening, surgery, and therapy — costs about $75,000 in the first year for a single implant, said Susan B. Waltzman, the co-director of N.Y.U.'s Cochlear Implant Center.
Depending so heavily on artemisinin, while unavoidable, has serious drawbacks: combination therapy costs between ten and twenty times as much as chloroquine, and, despite increasing assistance from international charities, that is too much money for most Africans or their governments.
Because patients usually undergo Intron A treatment for nearly a year and the therapy costs thousands of dollars, Schering-Plough's payments to physicians left plenty of room for the company to profit handsomely, the doctors said.
A group of doctors in Queens allegedly paid their patients to indulge in ballroom dancing lessons and other luxuries, then billed Medicare for $11.7 million in false physical therapy costs.
A year of therapy costs $10,000 or more in the United States, but several multinational drug companies have negotiated far lower prices with some African countries, as low as $1,000 a year, and now Cipla will sell generic drug cocktails for less.
It's also about 80percentt cheaper than more traditional therapy costs.
As with abortive therapy, costs vary widely among these prophylactic agents.
Therapy costs are paid by the statutory or private health insurances of the patient.
