“High-markup” hospitals 🏥💰 are overwhelmingly for-profit, located in large metropolitan areas 🌆 and have the worst patient outcomes ⚠️. Some investor-owned institutions charge up to 17 times the actual cost of care 💵. In other words: the most expensive hospitals were frequently the lowest-value hospitals 📉.
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“High-markup” hospitals are overwhelmingly for-profit, located in large metropolitan areas and have the worst patient outcomes
Hospitals with the widest difference between the cost of their services and what they charge patients and insurance carriers are mostly for-profit, investor owned and located in large metropolitan areas -- and have worse patient outcomes.
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