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.”

Jul 31, 2023