The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary.
Ed Knight was taken to HCA’S Chippenham Hospital in Virginia after cutting his arm in a fall from a ladder. He was billed a $17,000 trauma team “activation” fee for what the hospital called a “mild” ...
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s average activation fees can be up to $50,000 per patient, according to Kaiser Health News. In its report, KHN used 2020 data on trauma-team activation charges, ...
The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary.