CLEVELAND — News 5 Investigators have been fighting for answers about the prices you pay for health care, and we are following through on some recent changes to an important bill that could affect your costs.
This week the Ohio Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity Committee drastically altered the bill, changing administrative penalties, prohibiting most of those facility fees you must pay at outpatient services, and it gets rid of a provision that stops hospitals from collecting debts until they are compliant with transparency regulations.“It seems to be a bill that is in favor of the hospitals rather than the patients,” said Republican Rep.
But what about actual prices patients pay? Lang said hospitals should be allowed to use price estimators only. He compared it to when you bring in a car to get it fixed. You get an estimate, but when the mechanic pops the hood and finds more problems, he should not be held to that first estimate.“Estimates in health care are not real prices,” said Linda Bent, the President of PatientRightsAdvocate.Org.
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