Employers Compared Notes On Secret Prices At Kansas Hospitals To Boost Their Leverage On Costs
A project started by employers in Indiana who wanted to compare costs among hospitals has grown to include 49 states. Hospitals dispute their findings.
-snip-
In Kansas, private health plans paid more than twice the rate of Medicare for hospital care in 2018, RAND found. Prices at the University of Kansas Hospital and Overland Park Regional Medical Center were among the highest RAND saw. Not just in Kansas, but across the country.
The KU Health System disputes the think tank’s findings that show KU Hospital charged four times what Medicare would have paid for the 676 insurance claims that RAND managed to get.
“It is not a fair representation of charges at KU Health System,” Vice President of Revenue Colette Lasack said, “compared to our annual volumes of 52,000 inpatients, and nearly 2 million outpatients.”
Read more: https://www.kcur.org/news/2020-09-25/employers-compared-notes-on-secret-prices-at-kansas-hospitals-to-boost-their-leverage-on-costs
= new reply since forum marked as read
Yeah, sure..........
Confront the nazi med corps with facts, and most important,
with lots of people working on this cuz they will be attacked...Big, no huge players
in this one....
...everywhere you read, compared to other places this countries Healthcare system
is way overpriced.....
