Researchers contend 50 hospitals with a top cost markups are charging patients some-more than 10 times that authorised by Medicare.
The study, led by Prof. Gerard F. Anderson – of a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health – and Ge Bai – of Washington Lee University – is published in a Jun emanate of Health Affairs.
They contend their commentary denote how a miss of sanatorium assign law and marketplace foe lead to augmenting prices, that impact scarcely all consumers – either insured or uninsured.
Overall, a group detected a markup of some-more than 1,000% for a same medical services lonesome by Medicare.
“There is no justification for these vast rates,” says Prof. Anderson, “but no one tells hospitals they can’t assign them. For a many part,