Introduction: covid-19 is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the acute respiratory syndrome of Corona 2 virus, which has had catastrophic effects on the world's demographics. This disease has placed a significant burden on the Iranian health care system.
Methods: This study is a descriptive study that was performed retrospectively and information was collected cross-sectional over a period of one year and examined the unit cost of patients with corona in two scenarios .Also, the costing approach of this study is a top-down method.
Results: The study showed that patients with covid-19 who were hospitalized in the internal wards of covid-19's daily hospitalization cost is 15,152,154 Rials and the average length of stay of each patient is 5 days and finally the unit cost of each patient is 75,760,770 Rials. Patients who are hospitalized in the intensive care unit are average and each day of hospitalization of these patients is 23,478,657 Rials and each patient is an average of 8 days of hospitalization, so the unit cost per patient was 187,829,254 Rials
Conclusion: The cost of treating patients with corona is a significant cost and has had a great economic burden on the Iranian health care system, so that appropriate policies are needed to reduce waste of resources.