New study from Stanford University shows surprise medical bills – when you visit a hospital and, some time later, get charged a bill – are on the rise.
A new study from Stanford University published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows surprise medical bills – when you visit a hospital and, some time later, get charged a bill – are on the rise.
If you visited the emergency department in 2010, there was a 32% likelihood you would receive a surprise medical bill. But in 2016, Sun and his team found it rose to just under 43%. These surprise bills come from a variety of sources, but primarily it has to do with insurance coverage, according to the researchers.
Ambulance services, an often overlooked source of medical costs, resulted in a surprise bill for 86% of ER visits and nearly 82% of hospital admissions. "In these settings, you often can't choose who you're treated by, so surprise bills are very difficult to avoid," Sun said.
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