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Health and Society
Data from G.F. Anderson and colleagues advance knowledge in health and society
August 18th, 2007
"In 2004, the rates charged to many uninsured and other ''self-pay'' patients for hospital services were often 2.5 times what most health insurers actually paid and more than three times the hospital's Medicare-allowable costs," researchers in the United States report. "The gaps between rates charged to self-pay patients and those charged to other payers are much wider than they were in the mid-1980s, and they make it increasingly more difficult for some patients, especially the uninsured, to pay their hospital bills. This has triggered lawsuits and some recent government efforts involving price transparency," wrote G.F. Anderson and colleagues. The...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2007-08-18)
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