MedPage Today August 12, 2019
-Very, a new analysis shows
So-called surprise medical bills became more common for privately insured patients getting hospital care from 2010 to 2016, a claims analysis found, and not just for emergency department visits.
The proportion of emergency department visits at in-network hospitals entailing at least one out-of-network bill went up from 32.3% to 42.8% (P<0.001) during that period, and patients’ average financial responsibility as stated in these bills rose from $220 to $628 (P<0.001), reported Eric Sun, MD, PhD, of the Stanford University Medical Center in California, and colleagues in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Similarly, the average potential financial responsibility for out-of-network bills stemming from inpatient admission went from $804 to $2,040 (P<0.001), and the proportion of such...
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