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Hospital Billing Tactics & Price Markups
Instead of the $75 fee Rebecca Smith, a breast cancer survivor, had been paying for an office visit and blood draw since she started treatments in 2017, Novant hit her with a bill for about $400 for the visit.
Hospital Billing Tactics & Price Markups
Matthew Burin got billed $750 by an orthopedic clinic after his 8-year-old son broke his arm. “I figured it was a mistake,” Burin said. The bill included a $400 facility fee for Children’s Hospital Colorado – more than half of the total charge.
Hospital Billing Tactics & Price Markups
It’s built with enough steel to construct two Eiffel Towers. It has twice as much concrete as Ohio Stadium. There is enough piping in the building to stretch to Phoenix, and enough wiring to make it Zanesville to the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s new inpatient hospital tower is “a feat of engineering,” said Dr. Andrew Thomas, chief clinical officer and senior associate vice president for health sciences.
Hospital Billing Tactics & Price Markups
“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.
Hospital Billing Tactics & Price Markups
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.
Hospital Billing Tactics & Price Markups
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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