Health care providers in the South may be hiking up prices more for emergency care and critical care than for colon cancer detection and radiation therapy.
Analysts at America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) have raised that possibility with state-by-state health care cost data they have published in a look at gaps between what providers bill privately insured out-of-network (OON) patients and what they bill Medicare enrollees.
AHIP created the cost report to draw policymakers' attention to differences between what similar providers in different parts of the United States charge for the same procedure, and the differences between what patients with different types of health coverage pay for the same procedure.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
