The Market Forces Quietly Adding Thousands to Patient Bills

The Market Forces Quietly Adding Thousands to Patient Bills

The true cost of “vertical integration”: patients directed to a higher-priced location for procedures. Or forced to buy from their insurer’s wholly owned pharmacy, which may not stock the drug prescribed or provide it at the lowest price.

The Market Forces Quietly Adding Thousands to Patient Bills - Health Care Today

After a failed round of in vitro fertilization this year, Anne Hug’s fertility doctor said she had a single polyp in her uterus that should be removed to improve the chance of pregnancy. Hug, a professor of radiology, learned that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says the procedure can be done in a [...]