Fierce Healthcare December 15, 2023
A new price comparison study finds over 50% higher facility fees for commercially insured colonoscopies performed in hospitals rather than ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), suggesting that “money has apparently been left on the table” for employers and consumers.
Published Friday in JAMA Health Forum, the analysis reviewed data on 13,287 facility fees charged by roughly 3,600 hospitals and 17,000 ASCs across the country. The data were made available last year under price transparency requirements for payers and compiled by pricing data comparison platform Turquoise Health.
Among these, the study’s researchers found that hospitals charged average facility fees of $1,530 for a colonoscopy, $1,760 for a colonoscopy plus a biopsy and $1,761 for a colonoscopy with the removal of polyps, as...
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