Rural Medicare Patients Get Hit on Cost and Quality

Guy N

Well-Known Member
A flaw in Medicare’s payment structure has forced beneficiaries in rural “critical access” hospitals to pay between two and six times more for outpatient procedures than patients at other hospitals pay for the same procedures. For example, in 2012, Medicare patients at critical access hospitals paid an average of $33 for an electrocardiogram, while patients at other hospitals paid just $5 ...

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