How hospital mergers are driving rise of unexpected 'facility fees'

Christine Monahan: Hospital industry representatives are telling us facility fees can cover a broad set of costs. That can include staffing and ...

How hospital mergers are driving rise of unexpected 'facility fees

Hospital mergers are giving rise to opaque 'facility fees' that add costs to medical bills · Christine Monahan: · How much are these facility fees ...

Hospital mergers giving rise to opaque 'facility fees' that add costs to ...

Consolidations throughout the health care system are giving rise to unexpected charges that experts say more and more patients are seeing on ...

Navigating the Complexities of Hospital Facility Fees - Alaffia Health

Healthcare consolidation: Healthcare system consolidation allows larger hospital networks to charge facility fees at smaller, affiliated clinics ...

Mergers of hospitals, doctors' offices contribute to patients footing ...

Some patients are ...

Who Pays For Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital ...

Using exposure to price increases caused by horizontal hospital mergers as an instrument, we show that rising prices raise the cost of labor ...

Hospital mergers and health care price increases: A primer for ...

Hospital mergers — market consolidation — can lead to health care price increases of anywhere from 3% to 65%, according to a 2022 RAND ...

Hospital consolidation and rising health care prices lead to job ...

In newly released work, we analyze the downstream consequences of the price increases caused by hospital mergers. ... We show that a 1 percent ...

Hospital consolidation paves the way for uptick in facility fees

Big health systems have more frequently charged patients “facility fees” in the past decade, charging additional costs for the space, equipment ...

Severe Economic and Health Impacts of Hospital Mergers Revealed ...

Rigorous analysis of insurance claims data exposes how hospital consolidations lead to substantial post-merger price hikes, burdening consumers ...

How Hospitals Are Driving Up Health Care Costs by Abusing Site of ...

“'Facility Fees' Are Surprise Cost for Many Patients.” KFF Health News. ... “Hospital Facility Fees Raise Out-of-Pocket Costs for Medicare ...

Behind the Bill: - United States of Care

... consolidation fuels financial exposure to hospital facility fees as more ... rising hospital prices, including facility fees. A 2022 consumer survey ...

Fact Sheet: Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions Can Expand and ...

The Issue One of the most important tools that hospitals can use to increase access and quality of care and manage risk and financial ...

Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital ...

However, in the US health care sector, price hikes are frequently the result of industry tactics — such as mergers and acquisitions, surprise medical billing, ...

Provider Consolidation Drives Up Health Care Costs

One study estimated that prices for physician services provided by hospital-acquired doctors increases by 14 percent after an acquisition.75 ...

Hospital Mergers Increase Costs and Do Not Improve Quality - PMC

The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Director of the Bureau of Economics recently stated that when hospitals merge they face less competition and charge as much ...

Impact on Hospital Cost & Quality Post-Acquisition - Elevance Health

Independent hospital mergers with health systems have exposed consumers, employers, and other payers to higher prices without a commensurate increase in ...

Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices? Evidence from Hospital ...

... merger price increases across transactions to drive our instrument. Second, we show that our income result is robust to replacing post-merger price effects ...

Hospital Markets and the Effects of Consolidation - AAF

Payments from private insurers in particular are driving this price growth: Hospital reimbursement rates from public payers grew just 19 ...

Hospital mergers and acquisitions | Deloitte US

Hospital mergers and acquisitions show no signs of slowing down. Financial, market, competitive, and regulatory forces are likely to drive further consolidation ...