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The Health Cost Challenge Presented by Out-of-Network Charges
America's Health Insurance Plans [AHIP] Mar. 5, 2014
"[In] New York, a physician billed a patient $115,625 for lumbar spinal fusion -- 62 times the Medicare fee of $1,867. Similar examples were found in all 30 states included in the survey, and there are many examples of even higher variations in charges ... While the issue of how much is appropriate for out-of-network physicians to charge has not been part of the affordability discussion to date, this report demonstrates that it needs to be."
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