Amanda Bynes’ Outrageous Hospital Bill

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By Anne Cohen September 4, 2013

After weeks of crazy antics, these pages have been pretty quiet where Amanda Bynes is concerned.

That’s because the troubled starlet is still under court-mandated psychiatric treatment at UCLA Medical Center, where she was sent after starting a fire in a woman’s driveway.

But as it turns out, treatment doesn’t come cheap.

According to [HollyScoop], this little hospital visit is costing Bynes $3500 a day, mostly due to living expenses as she resides in the medical facility while receiving care.

TMZ reported last week that the ex-actress could stay under psychiatric care for up to a year as per a judge’s recent ruling, which would add up to the tidy sum of $1,277,500.

Doctors reportedly only want to keep Bynes for 60 days, at the discounted rate of $210,000.

Lucky girl.

Anne Cohen was the Forward’s deputy digital media editor. When she’s not looking for the secret Jewish history of Voodoo in New Orleans, or making lists about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she writes for The Assimilator. She graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with an M.S. magazine concentration in 2012.

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