Doctors' offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals
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Doctors’ offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals
Even when patients never step into a hospital, they may be charged hospital “facility fees,” and their care may be billed at higher rates.
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By Julie Z. Weil
As U.S. hospitals buy up a growing portion of the doctors’ offices in the United States, patients are paying a steep cost: Routine medical care is often being billed at the much more expensive rate for hospital care, instead of the lower cost for procedures in a doctor’s office.
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