Podcast Center
Video Center
Webcasts
Resource Center
Events
January 16, 2004 at 07:00 PM
NU Online News Service, Jan. 16, 2004, 2:42 p.m. EST – The Council for Affordable Health Insurance, Alexandria, Va., is asking, “Are Hospitals Gouging the Uninsured?”[@@]
The health insurance group is holding a panel discussion about that topic in Washington Jan. 22. Panelists will talk about the differences between the prices that hospitals charge members of Medicare, Medicaid and private managed care plans and the prices that the same hospitals charge the uninsured.
“When the uninsured enter the hospital, they are charged significantly more than patients with Medicare, Medicaid or private health coverage, even though the uninsured are the least able to afford the higher prices because they tend to be lower-income working Americans,” CAHI says in a news release announcing the panel discussion.
