Because the costs and energy required to produce antivenom are so large, producers don’t make enough to provide to these areas because it’s not financially feasible, despite high demand for the product. As such, even if these individuals make it to a hospital for treatment, antivenom is in little or no supply.

The average list price for CroFab is $3,198 per vial, according to the health care information tech company Connecture. Manufacturing costs, product improvements and research all factor into the drug’s price, said Chris Sampson, spokesman for BTG. A Mexican version of snake antivenin can cost roughly $200.

According to its price list — posted online to satisfy a recent federal requirement — the drug now costs $5,096.76 per vial. And the snake antivenin market in the U.S. now has another drug competing for patients: Anavip.

There’s only one commercially available antivenin for “treating venomous snakebites in the United States – CroFeb, manufactured by U.K.-based BTG plc,” according to The Washington Post. So for a single, smaller rattlesnake bite that would need four vials of antivenin, the cost is $9,200.

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Dr. McCorkle said most large hospitals have the anti-venom stocked and ready to go. Antivenom can save your life, but it doesn’t come cheap. Each vial costs about $2,500 and treatment requires a few vials on average.

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A single vial of Boomslang antivenom costs $5500 and one could require up to 3 vials to counteract a serious bite. A King Cobra bite could require 20 vials, although 50 is not unheard of. Fortunately it is a much cheaper antivenom (though also not as effective as others either) at just $40 per vial.

McNally also said hospitals often mark up the price of the drug between two to seven times over what they pay to buy it from Rare Disease Therapeutics, which is a relatively standard practice for drugs sold in U.S. hospitals. Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

This includes various types of cobras, kraits, saw-scaled vipers, sea snakes, and pit vipers for which there are no commercially available anti-venom.

Cobra venom is used in the preparation of chemicals needed for Chemotherapy of terminally ill Cancer patients. The value of the venom is so high since it is used to treat cancer patients in China.

It’s get to the ER and get the antivenom.” Antivenom can save your life, but it doesn’t come cheap. Each vial costs about $2,500 and treatment requires a few vials on average. One professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine says it is not uncommon for medical bills to total $50,000 or more after a bite.

Despite being thin and pretty, the coral snake is lethal, armed with the second-strongest venom of any snake, after the black mamba. Coral snake venom is priced at over $4,000 per gram, reflecting an array of purported medical uses. Research shows that coral snake venom may have antiviral and antibacterial properties.

Coral snake venom is priced at over $4,000 per gram, reflecting an array of purported medical uses. Research shows that coral snake venom may have antiviral and antibacterial properties.

According to fpnotebook.com the typical 12 vial course with hospital markup pricing is often more than $100,000. The price, however, depends largely on the type of antivenom and the severity of damage it poses. This Wide Open Country article posted a picture of someone who had antivenom at a local hospital.