Neil Averitt commentary: Grim diagnosis for hospital list prices

Washington, D.C. (February 5, 2019) -- One of the frustrations of legal practice is encountering situations that are clearly wrong. High on this list is the problem of hospitals that announce very high, unrealistic “list” prices, which are negotiated down for insurers and Medicare patients. The end result is the only patients actually billed at the nominal reference prices are the impoverished uninsured and some unfortunate out-of-network users....

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