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The Estimated Value of Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Hospitals Was Nearly $28 Billion in 2020
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Watch: Axios Pro event on key health care issues in Congress
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AXIOS: 1 big thing: Congress eyes hospital “dishonest billing”
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KHN: Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties
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Axios: Hospitals have a target on their backs
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Axios: 1 big thing: The next health care wars are about costs
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Axios: 1 big thing: Hospitals still aren’t complying with price transparency rules
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The New York Times: How a Hospital Chain Used a Poor Neighborhood to Turn Huge Profits
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The New York Times: They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay.
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She Was Told Surgery Would Cost About $1,300. Then the Bill Came: $229,000.
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Employers pay hospitals billions more than Medicare
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WSJ: Hospitals Look to Raise Treatment Costs as Nurses’ Salaries Increase
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NY State of Politics: New York hospitals face patient safety questions
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Becker’s Hospital Review: 74% of physicians are hospital or corporate employees, with pandemic fueling increase
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Chicago Tribune: Hospital safety grades: One Illinois hospital earns an F, Northwestern earns a C
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Indiana local news: Ideas, research and tools to lower Indiana’s high healthcare costs
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NY Daily News: NewYork-Presbyterian finally agrees to accept World Trade Center Health Plan for 9/11 survivors
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AXIOS: Health Cost Regulator reprimands dominant Mass. hospital systems
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WSJ: High-Priced Hospitals in Indiana Press Their Political Luck
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Modern Healthcare: Certain specialty pharmacy drugs double in price at hospitals, study finds
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AXIOS: 1 big thing: Hospitals’ old spending fights resurface
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AXIOS: New normal for health care spending
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Lown Institute Hospital Index: FAIR SHARE SPENDING, How much are hospitals giving back to their communities?
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AXIOS: Hospitals’ massive cancer drug markups
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Modern Healthcare: Johns Hopkins study names health systems that provide the most ‘unnecessary’ care
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Becker’s Hospital Review: Hospital drug spending jumps 8.4% in 2021
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AXIOS: Hospitals are back in the hot seat for their prices
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ABC News: As a Midwestern state’s hospitals continue to merge, some experts worry about higher prices, quality of care
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Fortune: Big Hospitals vs. Big Pharma: Which industry is most to blame for soaring health care costs?
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Becker’s Hospital Review: Hospitals mark up drug prices by 250% on average, analysis finds
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Stat News: Safety-net hospitals take big markups on cancer drugs for commercially insured patients, study finds
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Texas A&M Today: Hospital Outsourcing Often Prioritizes Profit Over Patients
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KHN: A Covid Test Costing More Than a Tesla? It Happened in Texas.
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Stat News: Hospital mergers and acquisitions are a bad deal for patients. Why aren’t they being stopped?
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Healthcare Finance: About 1 in 5 hospitals mark up drug prices at least 700 percent, study finds
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Burlington Free Press: Vermont state auditor touts hospital price transparency tools as key to saving money
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NPR: The Untamed Rise Of Hospital Monopolies
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Health Affairs: Price Differences To Insurers For Infused Cancer Drugs In Hospital Outpatient Departments And Physician Offices
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NYTIMES: This Lab Charges $380 for a Covid Test. Is That What Congress Had in Mind?
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KHN: Hospital ‘Trauma Centers’ Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People Home
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NPR: A Health Care Giant Sold Off Dozens Of Hospitals — But Continued Suing Many Patients
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KHN: Effort to Decipher Hospital Prices Yields Key Finding: Don’t Try It at Home
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AXIOS: Childbirth highly susceptible to surprise medical bills
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Modern Healthcare: System-affiliated, not-for-profit hospitals more likely to share price data
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WSJ: Hospitals Often Charge Uninsured People the Highest Prices, New Data Show
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BLOOMBERG: Patient Drug Prices Can Vary by $50 a Pill Among U.S. Hospitals
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KHN: A Hospital Charged $722.50 to Push Medicine Through an IV. Twice.
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CHCF: The Sky’s the Limit: Health Care Prices and Market Consolidation in California
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WAPO: The Health 202: Pandemic relief funds boosted surpluses for some large hospitals
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Health System Tracker: Ground ambulance rides and potential for surprise billing
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KHN: Despite Covid, Many Wealthy Hospitals Had a Banner Year With Federal Bailout
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Modern Healthcare: In alleged healthcare ‘money grab,’ nation’s largest hospital chain cashes in on trauma centers
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ProPublica: Some Hospitals Kept Suing Patients Over Medical Debt Through the Pandemic
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AXIOS Vitals: 1 big thing: America’s biggest hospitals vs. their patients
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AXIOS: How America’s top hospitals hound patients with predatory billing
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Modern Healthcare: Big business wants to take on D.C.’s hospital lobby
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Catalyst: New study finds some hospitals mark up medicine prices at least 700 percent
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NBC News: Cancer patients often charged exorbitant fees for parking
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New York Times: Buoyed by Federal Covid Aid, Big Hospital Chains Buy Up Competitors
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CNN: ‘There’s no way I can pay for this:’ One of America’s largest hospital chains has been suing thousands of patients during the pandemic
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KHN: Covid Testing Has Turned Into a Financial Windfall for Hospitals and Other Providers
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AXIOS Vitals: Cost of care creeps with consolidation
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CBS: Battling COVID is just the start for many patients: Their hospital bills can be staggering
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WZTV: Sumner County man’s summer fishing trip & snake bite leads to $42,800 medical chopper bill
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WSJ: A City’s Only Hospital Cut Services. How Locals Fought Back.
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WAPO: Some of America’s wealthiest hospital systems ended up even richer, thanks to federal bailouts
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Modern Healthcare: High prices fuel Massachusetts healthcare spending growth
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NYT: ‘It Felt Like Deception’: An Elite NYC Hospital Charges Huge Virus Test Fees
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NPR: Her Doctor’s Office Moved 1 Floor Up. Why Did Her Treatment Cost 10 Times More?
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KHN Business Is Booming for Dialysis Giant Fresenius. It Took a $137M Bailout Anyway.
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KHN: COVID Bailout Cash Goes To Big Players That Have Paid Millions To Settle Allegations Of Wrongdoing
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WSJ: Hospitals Hide Pricing Data From Search Results
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AXIOS: Where the money goes
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AXIOS: Where costs will rise
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KHN: College Tuition Sparked a Mental Health Crisis. Then the Hefty Hospital Bill Arrived.
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Berger Montague: Department of Justice Combats Growing Trend of Fraud in the Dialysis Industry
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WSJ: How Much Does a C-Section Cost? At One Hospital, Anywhere From $6,241 to $60,584.
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Texas Tribune: COVID-19 testing has become a “cash cow” for freestanding ERs in Texas, experts say. And it’s getting out of control.
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NYT: How Rich Hospitals Profit From Patients in Car Crashes
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Seattle Times: Overlake Medical Center donors got special access to COVID-19 vaccine; Inslee rebukes hospital system
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Healthplan: Exorbitant Surprise Anesthesiology Bill Dizzies North Carolina Patient
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Modern Healthcare: Report: Hospital gave vaccine to donors, execs’ relatives
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PHRMA: Study finds hospitals continue to mark up medicines up to 500% of their cost
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NBC Houston: INVESTIGATES: Shocking bills after COVID-19 tests
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NYT: One Hospital System Sued 2,500 Patients After Pandemic Hit
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Health Affairs: Arbitration Over Out-Of-Network Medical Bills: Evidence From New Jersey Payment Disputes
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Washington Post: Profit and pain: How California’s largest nursing home chain amassed millions as scrutiny mounted
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NYT: Politicians Tackle Surprise Bills, but Not the Biggest Source of Them: Ambulances
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AXIOS: U.S. spent $3.8 trillion on health care last year
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CBS: How a hospital system grew to gain market power and drove up California health care costs
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Modern Healthcare: Dialysis industry spends millions, emerges as power player in California politics
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NYT: These Towns Trusted a Doctor to Set Up Covid Testing. Sample Patient Fee: $1,944.
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ProPublica: Nonprofit Hospital Almost Never Gave Discounts to Poor Patients During Collections, Documents Show
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NBC: Study: Virginia hospitals set charges 10-13 times over costs
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KHN: First Kidney Failure, Then A $540,842 Bill For Dialysis
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Fierce Healthcare: Price gouging gets worse for out-of-network COVID-19 tests
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NPR: How Non-Profit Hospitals Are Driving Up The Cost Of Health Care
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Health Care Cost Institute: Exploring Changes in Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro Area from 2013 to 2017
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Health Care Cost Institute: Past the Healthy Marketplace Index, Volume I: Exploring Actual Prices Paid for Specific Services by Metro Area
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Cape Cod Times: He died in 2005. This week, his mom was billed $120 for his COVID test
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NYT: These Towns Trusted a Doctor to Set Up Covid Testing. Sample Patient Fee: $1,944.
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Peterson- KFF Health System Tracker: How costly are common health services in the United States?
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NYT: A New Item on Your Medical Bill: The ‘Covid’ Fee
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NYT: When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More
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KFF: What We Know About Provider Consolidation
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Revcycle Intelligence: Private Equity-Acquired Hospitals Charge More for Common Services
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NBC News: Private equity firms now control many hospitals, ERs and nursing homes. Is it good for health care?
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Axios: Intermountain, Sanford hospital systems plan to merge
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Wall Street Journal: Some California Hospitals Refused Covid-19 Transfers for Financial Reasons, State Emails Show
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KHN: UVA Health Still Squeezing Money From Patients — By Seizing Their Home Equity
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Axios Vitals: Private equity-owned air ambulances charge more
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New York Times: A $52,112 Air Ambulance Ride: Coronavirus Patients Battle Surprise Bills
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Modern Healthcare: Fresenius operates half of Medicare’s lowest-rated dialysis facilities
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Health System Tracker: What drives health spending in the U.S. compared to other countries
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Bloomberg: A Wall Street Giant Tapped $1.5 Billion in Federal Aid for Its Hospitals
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WTVR: Richmond couple finds bat in bed, but the real shock comes later when hospital bill arrives
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USA Today: ‘Really astonishing’: Average cost of hospital ER visit surges 176% in a decade, report says
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WABE: Hospitals In Georgia, U.S. Charging Insurers More Than Twice Medicare Rates, Study Finds
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WFYI: Hoosier Hospitals Charge More For Same Procedures Than Surrounding States, Study Finds
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Vox: I read 1,182 emergency room bills this year. Here’s what I learned.
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Healthcare Dive: Higher ER prices, case severity boosting spending
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The Charlotte Observer: Prices soar as hospitals dominate cancer market
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Modern Healthcare: Gap between what private insurers and Medicare pay hospitals is growing
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RAND: Nationwide Evaluation of Health Care Prices Paid by Private Health Plans
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Axios: 1 Big Thing: Hospitals Prices’ Steady Rise
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NYT: Many Hospitals Charge More Than Twice What Medicare Pays for the Same Care
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AJMC: Policies to Address Surprise Billing Can Affect Health Insurance Premiums
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Modern Healthcare: COVID-19 test charges range from one cent to $14,750, study finds
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USA Today: ‘I was floored’: Coronavirus test prices charged by some hospitals and labs stun consumers, spur questions
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ProPublica: How a $175 COVID-19 Test Led to $2,479 in Charges
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ProPublica: A Doctor Went to His Own Employer for a COVID-19 Antibody Test. It Cost $10,984.
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The Charlotte Observer: Prices soar as hospitals dominate cancer market
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Health Leaders Media: 340B Ruling Helps Hospitals’ Bottom Lines
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Real Clear Health: Hospitals Are Gaming the 340B Drug Program
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AJC Report: Many Atlanta area hospital prices more than double Medicare’s
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RAND Report: Hospital Prices in Indiana
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Axios: Half of Americans fear health-related bankruptcy
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Axios: Hospitals charge a lot more when Wall Street owns them
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JAMA: Changes in Hospital Income, Use, and Quality Associated With Private Equity Acquisition
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Axios Vitals: Hospitals still suing patients in coronavirus hotspots
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Fierce Healthcare: Larger hospital, physician systems didn’t lead to better quality, study found
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ProPublica: How Rich Investors, Not Doctors, Profit From Marking Up ER Bills
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AJC: Piedmont Healthcare pays $16 million to settle kickback complaint
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Wall Street Journal: The $1.9 Million Covid Patient
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New York Times: A Hospital Forgot to Bill Her Coronavirus Test. It Cost Her $1,980.
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Kaiser Health News: Ever Heard of a Surgical Assistant? Meet a New Boost to Your Medical Bills
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Healthcare Dive: Nonprofit health systems – despite huge cash reserves – get billions in CARES funding
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Top 5 Reasons Why People go Bankrupt
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Peterson-KFF: COVID-19 Test Prices and Payment Policy
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USA Today: Next COVID relief package should require health price transparency. Everyone would benefit.
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New York Times: Most Coronavirus Tests Cost About $100. Why Did One Cost $2,315?
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Axios: Hospitals, doctors are major recipients of PPP loans
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The Seattle Times: Coronavirus survival comes with a $1.1 million, 181-page price tag
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Axios Vitals: The pandemic hasn’t stopped hospital mergers
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E&C Republicans: Working to end surprise medical billing: one year later
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ASC Review: ‘Half the cost, half the risk’ at ASCs versus hospitals — Dr. Shakeel Ahmed makes the case for upheaving referral patterns
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Reuters: Billions in COVID relief go to biggest hospital chains as smaller rivals await aid
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Houston Chronicle: Texas hospitals that received bailouts are suing poor patients for failing to pay medical bills
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NYT: Hospitals Got Bailouts and Furloughed Thousands While Paying C.E.O.s Millions
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CBS: After battling COVID-19, survivors may have to fight big medical bills
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Health Lab: Many Could Face Sky-High Surprise Bills from Air Ambulance Flights
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Bloomberg: Private Equity Lands Billion-Dollar Backdoor Hospital Bailout
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NPR: ER Visit For COVID-19 Symptoms Stuck Man With A $3,278 Bill
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New York Times: Wealthiest Hospitals Got Billions in Bailout for Struggling Health Providers
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AXIOS: 1 big thing: The coronavirus is dividing rich and poor hospitals
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New National Poll: Voters Want Permanent Surprise Billing Ban
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Medical Times Today: COVID-19: Cost of care deters 1 in 7 people from seeking treatment
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NY Times: He Got Tested for Coronavirus. Then Came the Flood of Medical Bills.
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NY Times: Kept at the Hospital on Coronavirus Fears, Now Facing Large Medical Bills
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WTOP News: A surprise medical bill after that Covid-19 ambulance ride
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PROPUBLICA: One Thing the Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped: Aggressive Medical-Debt Collection
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The Washington Post: As Coronavirus Cases Climbed, Private-Equity-Owned Hospital Demanded Bailout
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The Washington Post: Amid coronavirus distress, wealthy hospitals hoard millions
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COVID-19 care could cost billions, new estimates show
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Axios Vitals: Health care bailout fund reaches $175 billion
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NYT: Dialysis Patients Face Close-Up Risk From Coronavirus
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Congress Passes CARES Act Giving $100B in Hospital Funds for COVID-19
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TIME: Total Cost of Her COVID-19 Treatment: $34,927.43
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Axios Vitals: Ambulance surprise bills common and large
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PROPUBLICA: Overwhelmed Hospitals Face a New Crisis: Staffing Firms Are Cutting Their Doctors’ Hours and Pay
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KHN: Summer Bummer: A Young Camper’s $142,938 Snakebite
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NYT Opinion: He Got Tested for Coronavirus. Then Came the Flood of Medical Bills.
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NPR: A Genetic Test For A Microscopic Problem Came With A Jumbo Price Tag
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VOX: The case of the $629 Band-Aid — and what it reveals about American health care
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WSJ: Jeanette White Is Long Dead But Her Hospital Bill Lives On
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NIHCM: Hospital Mergers and the Unrealized Promise of Better Quality
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AXIOS: ER doctors’ pay raises outpace other specialists
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KFF: How has U.S. spending on healthcare changed over time?
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WSJ: The Hidden System That Explains How Your Doctor Makes Referrals
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BDN: Hospital mergers across US have raised health care prices. Now, another is pending in Maine.
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WSJ: Hospitals Merged. Quality Didn’t Improve.
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NPR: For Her Head Cold, Insurer Coughed Up $25,865
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ProPublica: When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested
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The Hill: U.S. spent $1 trillion on hospitals in 2018, report finds
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Reuters: Hospital sticker prices can rise faster than inflation
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NPR: The Air Ambulance Billed More Than The Lung Transplant Surgeon
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KHN: As UVA Scales Back Lawsuits, Pain For Past Patients Persists
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Crain’s Chicago Business: Nonprofit hospitals forced to defend hundreds of millions in property tax breaks
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Axios: The corporatization of hospital systems
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KHN: Patients Eligible For Charity Care Instead Get Big Bills
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NPR: How Non-Profit Hospitals Are Driving Up The Cost of Healthcare
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Axios: A reality check on hospital mergers
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The New York Times: The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care
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The New York Times: The Huge Waste in the U.S. Health System
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Healthcare Finance: Hospitals keep 91 percent of profit from physician-administered drugs
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Kaiser Health News: Her Biopsy Report Was Benign. But The Bill Is A Spot Of Contention.
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NPR: The Real Bachelor Party Hangover: A $12,460 ER Bill
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Fierce Healthcare: Report: 3 in 4 hospital markets are now ‘highly concentrated’
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Kaiser Health News: ‘UVA Has Ruined Us’: Health System Sues Thousands Of Patients, Seizing Paychecks And Claiming Homes
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Kaiser Health News: ‘Facility Fees’ Are Surprise Cost For Many Patients
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Axios: How air ambulances got so expensive
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The New York Times: As Patients Struggle With Bills, Hospital Sues Thousands
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NPR: When Hospitals Sue For Unpaid Bills, It Can Be ‘Ruinous’ For Patients
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NPR: Fancy Hospital Flourishes Often Fail To Impress Patients
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Urban Institute: Debt in America – Interactive Map
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The Atlantic: What Happens When You Don’t Pay a Hospital Bill
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The New York Times: That Beloved Hospital? It’s Driving Up Health Care Costs
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KHN: They Got Estimates Before Surgery — And A Bill After That Was 50% More
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Modern Healthcare: Highest-paid not-for-profit health system executives earn 33% raise in 2017
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ABC Cleveland: It can happen to anyone of us, an air ambulance ride costing $53,000
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Forbes: Hospitals Charging The Privately Insured 2.4 Times What They Charge Medicare Patients
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United Health Group: Confronting the High Cost of Hospital Prices
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Axios: Hospitals’ care is getting more expensive
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Axios: Hospitals’ drug bills are likely going up
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‘It’s borderline criminal’: Spokane couple gets $2.2K surprise medical bill
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Daily Beast: Are Fat Hospital Salaries for Doctors Really Kickbacks?
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Center for American Progress: Provider Consolidation Drives Up Health Care Costs
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Chicago Business: Why you’ll have to go farther for some hospital care
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YakTriNews: Kadlec charged thousands of ER patients “hidden fees”
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Top 82 U.S. Non-Profit Hospitals: Quantifying Government Payments and Financial Assets
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New York Times: Politicians Tackle Surprise Bills, but Not the Biggest Source of Them: Ambulances
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Axios: The cost of unnecessary ER visits
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Mission Local: Hospitals mobilizing to kill legislation that would prevent hospitals from gouging you
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ProPublica: The Nonprofit Hospital That Makes Millions, Owns a Collection Agency and Relentlessly Sues the Poor
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NPR: Why Air Ambulance Bills Are Still Sky-High
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Modern Healthcare: Revenue growth overtakes cost-cutting as hospital executives’ top priority
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Academic Emergency Medicine: Emergency Physician Perceptions of Medically Unnecessary Advanced Diagnostic Imaging
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The Post and Courier: A loophole lets SC hospitals take millions from residents’ tax refunds for unpaid bills
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Axios: 1 big thing: ER bills are skyrocketing
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USA Today: ‘Really astonishing’: Average cost of hospital ER visit surges 176% in a decade, report says
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KHN: Hospitals Accused Of Paying Doctors Large Kickbacks In Quest For Patients
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American Medical Association: For the First Time, Fewer Physicians are Owners Than Employees
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Axios: Hospitals are swimming in cash
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Medium: Surprise Medical Bills — A Rare Moment Of Bipartisanship May Put An End To Unfair Balance Billing
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Healthcare Dive: Physician revenues have jumped 52% since 2016
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E21: End Hospitals’ Right to a Blank Check for Emergency Care
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NYT: They Want It to Be Secret: How a Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1,000
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Axios: The silent affordability crisis facing sick people
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Vox: After Vox reporting, California moves forward on plan to end surprise ER bills
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NBC: Feds take down $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme in ‘Operation Brace Yourself’
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Modern Healthcare: Industry leaders share ideas, point fingers on limiting hospital prices
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Axios: Doctor pay on the rise
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Gallup: The U.S. Healthcare Cost Crisis
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Forbes: Hospital Pricing Practices, Transparency And Clarity Are Lacking
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Axios: Holy crap, air ambulances are expensive
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NIHCM: How Much Diagnostic Imaging Is Inappropriate and What Does It Cost?
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Becker’s Hospital Review: Most health systems don’t offer upfront cost information to patients, survey finds
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NPR: Cat Bites The Hand That Feeds; Hospital Bills $48,512
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Bloomberg: Nonprofit Hospitals Face Senate Probe of Tax-Exempt Status
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NIHCM: What Is Driving the Growth in Private Insurers’ Payments for Hospital-Based Care?
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Axios: Hospitals make bank on drug markups
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The Hill: Record healthcare spending driven by rising prices, not increased services: study
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NYT: Hospital Mergers Improve Health? Evidence Shows the Opposite
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Modern Healthcare: Hospital price growth driving healthcare spending
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FREOPP – Improving Hospital Competition: A Key to Affordable Health Care
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Axios: We all pay for surprise medical bills
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New York Times: Hospitals Must Now Post Prices. But It May Take a Brain Surgeon to Decipher Them.
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Health Day: U.S. Leads Healthcare Spending Among Richer Nations, But Gets Less
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Vox: A $20,243 bike crash: Zuckerberg hospital’s aggressive tactics leave patients with big bills
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Wall Street Journal: The Hidden System That Explains How Your Doctor Makes Referrals
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Wall Street Journal: John Stockman’s Medical Bills Topped $1 Million. What Happened?
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Newsweek – Hospital Prices: Full Cost Lists Must be Published from Jan. 1, New Federal Rule Says
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Axios: U.S. spends more than other countries on hospitals
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CNN: Sky-high prices for air ambulances hurt those they are helping
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ALTARUM: Nov. 2018 Health Sector Economic Indicators Briefs
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Wall Street Journal: To Curb Wasteful Health Spending, Walmart to Send Employees Traveling for Spine Surgery
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New York Times: When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More
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The Denver Post: Colorado hospitals charge insured patients significantly more than five other jurisdictions, survey finds
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Kaiser Health News: That’s A Lot Of Scratch – The $48,329 Allergy Test
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Modern Healthcare: Healthcare price growth significantly outpaces inflation
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Columbia Journalism Review: Sarah Kliff brings transparency to ER prices, one hospital bill at a time
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The Fiscal Times: Here’s How Much Soaring Healthcare Prices Have Cost American Workers
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Modern Healthcare: Hospital execs fail to reduce costs where needed, report says
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Health Leaders: Patients blame hospitals for high medical bills
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California Healthline: As California Hospitals Sweep Up Physician Practices, Patients See Higher Bills
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Modern Healthcare: Mergers yield minimal supply chain savings
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Becker’s Hospital Review: Healthcare spending up 44% among employer health plans, study reveals
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NPR: Taken For A Ride: M.D. Injured In ATV Crash Gets $53,603 Bill For Air Ambulance Trip
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Axios: Surprise medical bills could be a powerful campaign issue
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Axios: 1 big thing: Health spending keeps climbing
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NYT: Blame Emergency Rooms for the Out-of-Control Cost of Healthcare
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Axios – Report: Hospitals mark up drugs by 500%
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PwC Health Research Institute: One inflator of medical cost trend in 2019: Provider megamergers
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KHN: A Jolt To The Jugular! You’re Insured But Still Owe $109k For Your Heart Attack
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Axios: Hospital prices are all over the board
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Wall Street Journal: What Does Knee Surgery Cost? Few Know, and That’s a Problem
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The Joplin Globe: Broader look needed to lower medical costs
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Axios: It’s not just the uninsured – it’s also the cost of healthcare
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The Washington Post: The sprawling, intrusive administrative state is keeping you unwell
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Pioneer Press: One patient paid $12,326 for a spinal fusion surgery, another $80,518 – at the same hosptial
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Bloomberg: To Save on Healthcare, Change What the Doctor Orders
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Star Tribune: A tale of 2 splinters (and one $751 medical bill)
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Modern Healthcare: Employers curb high-deductible plans, even as insurance costs rise
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CVS Health: Delivering the Right Care at the Right Time
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Politico: CMS wants hospital prices posted online
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Vox: This surgeon wants to offer cheap MRIs. A state law is getting in his way.
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The Wall Street Journal: Why Americans Spend So Much on Healthcare – In 12 Charts
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The New York Times: Shopping for Healthcare Simply Doesn’t Work. So What Might?
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Denver Business Journal: Cost-shift crisis: Colorado businesses, private payers disproportionately hit with rising hospital charges
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Denver Business Journal: Finally, transparency in Colorado healthcare pricing takes major step forward
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NIHCM: How Can We Increase Patient Shopping for High-Value Providers?
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USC Center for Health Journalism: ‘It’s the Prices, Stupid’: How sky-high prices are crippling our healthcare system
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Axios: Think drug costs are bad? Try hospital prices
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Boston Globe: Beth Israel-Lahey merger raises a Medicaid issue
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Pew Research Center: Americans are closely divided over value of medical treatments, but most agree costs are a big problem
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Modern Healthcare: Cost containment is a top priority among health system executives
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Southeast Missourian: We need to examine broader reasons for healthcare costs
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HealthLeaders – Consumerism is Here: Don’t Let Your Revenue Cycle Get Left Behind
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HealthExec: Healthcare price growth hits 6-year high
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Vox: A baby was treated with a nap and a bottle of formula. His parents received an $18,000 bill.
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Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker: How do healthcare prices and use in the U.S. compare to other countries?
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AHIP: Where Does Your Health Care Dollar Go?
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American Academy of Actuaries: Drivers of 2019 Health Insurance Premium Changes
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Health Care Cost Institute: ER spending among the commercially insured continued to rise in 2016, driven by the price and use of high severity cases (2009-2016)
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Healthcare Finance: AHIP follows the money: Here are the factors driving insurance premiums higher
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NPR: Sticker Shock Jolts Oklahoma Patient: $15,076 For 4 Tiny Screws
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Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker: How have healthcare prices grown in the U.S. over time?
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Inside Sources: America’s Health Care Challenge: We’re All in This Together
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The Washington Post: There’s a genuine solution to our health-care problem
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The Washington Post: HHS proposes Medicare payment rules to encourage hospitals to be clearer about prices
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CNN Money: $12,000 for a bee sting? Emergency room visits get even pricier
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JAMA Network: Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries
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Reuters: U.S. health spending twice other countries’ with worse results
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The Hill: US spends twice as much as other wealthy countries on health care
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Kaiser Health News: Bill Of The Month: For Toenail Fungus, A $1,500 Prescription
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Axios: Azar’s warning on hospital prices
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Axios: Why We Spend So Much on Health Care
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NBC News: High ambulance costs surprise families in times of need
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Buzzfeed: People Are Using Ubers As Ambulances — And Drivers Hate It
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NYT: Are Hospitals Becoming Obsolete?
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CNN: A $17,850 urine test: Industry boom amid opioid epidemic
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Washington Examiner: Greg Walden pursues giving consumers more information on health prices
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Bloomberg: A Long Era of Low Health Care Inflation May Be Coming to End
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Vox: Why a simple, lifesaving rabies shot can cost $10,000 in America
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AEIdeas: Chart of the day (century?): Price changes 1997 to 2017
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Healthcare Finance: Colorado signs law mandating that hospitals post self-pay prices
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CNBC: Big price differences for common surgeries: How to pay eight times more for new knees
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Twin Cities Pioneer Press: Need a knee replacement? It costs $46,974 at one Minnesota hospital and $6,186 at another
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NEJM Catalyst: Do Hospitals Still Make Sense? The Case for Decentralization of Health Care
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Bloomberg: Hospitals Are Merging to Face Off With Insurers
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NIHCM Foundation: ‘It’s the Prices, Stupid’: How Sky-high Prices Are Crippling Our Health Care System
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UPI: Report: Half of hospital-delivered medical care delivered at the ER
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Vox: Emergency rooms are monopolies. Patients pay the price.
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Reuters: Healthcare prices hard to find online
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HealthcareDIVE: 5 payer trends to watch in 2018
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ProPublica: A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old’s Ears. This Is Why Health Care Costs So Much.
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Axios: The concerns behind pricey hospital projects
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Politico: A nation of McHospitals?
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Chicago Tribune: Chicago-area hospitals have merger fever. Is it good for patients?
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NYT: The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills
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Vox: The case of the $629 Band-Aid — and what it reveals about American health care
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