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“How Much Will I Get Charged for This?” Patient Charges for Top Ten Diagnoses in the Emergency Department

Caldwell, Nolan, Srebotnjak, Tanja, Wang, Tiffany, Hsia, Renee·2013·PLoS ONE
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0055491PMC PMC3584078
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Figure 2 Emergency department charges across payer group for the ten most frequent outpatient conditions. Vertical bars indicate median charge for each of the ten conditions by insurance type: uninsured (black), Medicaid (dark grey), and private insurance (light grey). Medicaid patients were charged the most overall (median $1305), followed by private insurance ($1245), and uninsured patients ($1178).
Figure 2 Emergency department charges across payer group for the ten most frequent outpatient conditions. Vertical bars indicate median charge for each of the ten conditions by insurance type: uninsured (black), Medicaid (dark grey), and private insurance (light grey). Medicaid patients were charged the most overall (median $1305), followed by private insurance ($1245), and uninsured patients ($1178).CC0 · PubMed Central

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Authors
Caldwell, N., Srebotnjak, T., Wang, T., & Hsia, R.
Venue
PLoS ONE
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Published
2013-02-27
Volume
8
Issue
2
Pages
e55491
ISSN
1932-6203
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0055491
PMC
PMC3584078
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92
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en
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