Commentary: Same hospital, same injury, same child, same day: Why did one ER visit cost thousands more?
by Renee Y. Hsia, Los Angeles Times
Dec 13, 2023
3 minutes
The Kaiser Family Foundation recently reported that the annual cost of family health insurance jumped to nearly $24,000 this year, the greatest increase in a decade. While insurance executives and employers may cite a plethora of reasons, one of the chief culprits is lack of oversight over the Wild West of health care prices.
My friend encountered a dramatic example of this last year after her 4-year-old daughter had the misfortune of suffering the same injury twice in the same day.
The girl’s parents were getting her ready for school one morning when, as her hand
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