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Georgann Boatright, a retired speech pathologist from Oxford, Mississippi, was told by her local hospital that she needed to pay an $8,000 “operating room fee” for a routine test.
July 26, 2024
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Researchers found that the cost for an MRI of lower extremity without contrast at Saint Al’s varied between $133 and $2,074 among insured patients. For a knee replacement at the hospital, the cost ranged from $2,081 to over $6,980.
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“An injection every six weeks to two months, depending on what the results are,” Guthrie said. When he was in Arizona, he paid $45 out of pocket, then he moved to Madison. “I come back here, I’m charged $45 plus a facility fee of $275. I can’t justify the 275 when I’m on fixed income,” Guthrie said.
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