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$297,461, which included two ambulance rides, an emergency room visit, and a couple of days in pediatric intensive care. Antivenom alone accounts for $213,278.80 of the total bill.
After 12 hours in the waiting room, Osborne said, he was moved to an ER bed, where he stayed until he was sent to the intensive care unit the next day.
“We have people here who know nothing about billing and coding making very important decisions about billing and coding that shouldn’t be in their hands”
Top Penn State Health surgeon warned leaders about transplant problems months before shutdown. Then he was let go.
Delaware County, Pennsylvania, had one of the largest increases in hospital market concentration between 2012 and 2022 at 113 percent. Over the same period, the amount of adults in the county with medical debt in collections increased 0.9 percentage points while at the national level, this same measurement decreased 7.7 percentage points over the same period.
According to a study from USC, Sutter Health used “all or nothing” contracts to boost revenue. The same study also found that Sutter Health’s prices surged 30% higher than comparable California hospitals after adopting anticompetitive contracts.
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