Re: 50 hospitals charge uninsured more than 10 times cost of care, study finds
LGH billed my insurance $11,600 for a routine outpatient procedure. I asked for and received an itemized bill with CPT codes and found out that Medicare would have only allowed $1,800 for the same exact procedure. I don’t know what the actual cost of the procedure was, I’m assuming it was pretty close to what Medicare allows.
Even with my insurance and their contracted rate with LGH, the bill was still almost 5 1/2 times the assumed cost. I hope a state law can be passed to limit the max hospitals in PA can charge over the Medicare allowance.
EDITOR: Great suggestion!
