How States Can Protect Patients from Harmful Hospital Pricing Practices – Century Foundation
- Predatory debt collection practices, unnecessary facility fees, and manipulative surprise billing collections drive up health care prices; what’s more, these high prices do not burden patients equally.
- It’s crucial that we reform charity care and medical debt requirements to ensure that low-income and uninsured patients do not face unaffordable bills.
- Prohibiting unnecessary facility fees will reward patients for choosing lower-cost health care providers.
- States should build on federal surprise billing laws to ensure that hospitals do not drive up the cost of care and inflate premiums.
