The emergency room bill was $937. But the insurer, UnitedHealthcare, paid only $151.02. Why? Because unbeknown to the patient and his family, the ER doctor was out of network. But wait. The hospital was an in-network hospital. Yes, but the doctor wasn’t. And that, it turns out, is not unusual.
Obamacare’s ER Surprise
Also published in Forbes Tue. September 30, 2014
John C. Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.
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