If you're seeking medical treatment at North Okaloose Medical Center in Crestview, FL, and you don't have health insurance or if the center is out of your network, beware. You're gonna pay full price at the hospital that marks its services up more than any other hospital in America.
And some markups represent a 1,000 percent markup on some services and procedures, compared to what Medicare is willing to cover for those services.
At least that's the word from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Washington and Lee University. They did a study of health care center price markups based upon 2012 price lists and churned out the Top 50 health centers with the highest markups over accepted Medicare prices.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
