Medical society seeks lower costs for patients stuck with high lab bills
By Cheryl Powell
Beacon Journal staff writerPOSTED: 06:00 p.m. EDT, Apr 26, 2009
If you don't have health insurance, getting a blood test can be a real pain in your pocketbook.
The Summit County Medical Society recently launched an effort to persuade Akron's three hospital systems and labs in the area to discount bills for uninsured patients.
By law, medical institutions must charge everyone the same rate for services.
But most bills then are steeply discounted for patients covered by government and private health-insurance plans.
Medicare, for example, ends up paying $18.57 in Ohio for a cholesterol test that area labs charge $96 to $147.75 to provide.....
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