Average Charge-To-Cost Ratio – Alaska
SOURCE: Attachment 1 National Nurses United, “Fleecing Patients: Hospitals Charge Patients More Than Four Times the Cost of Care” (Nov. 2020), p. 49
“A hospital employee whom Dr. Marty Makary confronted on behalf of a patient who received an exorbitant hospital bill provides the answer: ‘The law allows us to charge whatever we want. If we want to charge $1 million, she has to pay it.'”
“Medicare and Medicade pay less than cost, the uninsured pay little or nothing, and others must make up the difference.”
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