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About That $1,126 Charge For A 2-Inch Bandage: Oops, It’s $2

Filed Under: Costs, Patients, Providers

SUMMARY: Always question your bills. Always. Our friends over at Commonhealth wrote a piece not long ago about a woman who was charged $1,126 for a 2-inch bandage. After a year of fruitless complaining, she posted on the hospital’s Facebook page. Guess what?     Jeanne PinderJeanne Pinder  is the founder and CEO of ClearHealthCosts. […]

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Massachusetts: Cost-cutting strategies aren’t working

Filed Under: Costs, Health plans, Health reform

Massachusetts: Cost-cutting strategies aren’t working

Massachusetts has been in the forefront of health reform. So it was dispiriting to learn in a Massachusetts health reform report issued June 22 that the state’s test of one of the most-hoped-for reforms changes has failed to cut costs. In fact, most of the news in the report was relatively gloomy: it suggested that […]

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