Friday, July 22, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Emergency Care Costs
Emergency care leaves patients financially vulnerable, as they face limited options in seeking immediate care. In these
situations, self-pay patients who do not bill insurance for hospital services are among the most financially vulnerable.
For the July 2022 issue, Morgan Henderson and Morgane Mouslim conduct a national analysis of cash prices for emergency department (ED) facility fees.
After sampling 1,621 hospitals across the nation, Henderson and Mouslim find
that "hospital for-profit status and a bed count of 251 or more beds were associated with higher cash prices for ED facility fees."
At the same time, the authors point out that location in a county with a poverty rate of 16 percent or more was correlated with lower facility fee cash prices.
The findings of the descriptive study demonstrate that for-profit status, higher bed count, affiliation with a health system, and lower local area poverty rate each correlate with higher ED facility fee cash prices.
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