KFF Health News October 9, 2024
An $88 “observation room” fee for a checkup didn’t sit right with Kari Greene, an “Arm and a Leg” listener from Oregon. When the price went up to $99 the next year, Kari complained to her benefits representative, who thought it was weird, too — but couldn’t do anything about it.
In states like Connecticut and Indiana, legislators have passed bills restricting these so-called “facility fees.”
In this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann takes a close look at Kari’s bill, alongside Christine Monahan, an attorney and assistant research professor focused on facility fees and state efforts to limit them.
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