Medical bill People are stillhitting the emergency room instead of seeing a doctor regularly,raising their own out-of-pocket costs as well as hospitals'financial exposure.

Hospitals' costs for uncompensated care and unreimbursedexpenses are still increasing, although the pace of that increasehas slowed a bit since 2016.

According to a Definitive Healthcare analysis of 3,855hospitals. the grand total for uncompensated care and reimbursementshortfalls—including free and discounted care for low-incomepatients, unpaid bills and unreimbursed costs from Medicaid andChildren's Health Insurance Programs—came to agrand total of $12.8 million in 2018. That's up from $11.2 millionin 2015.

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Marlene Satter

Marlene Y. Satter has worked in and written about the financial industry for decades.

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