Health Affairs, 25, no. 1 (2006): 44 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.1.44 © 2006 by Project HOPE	New Online   Pay Cuts For Medicare Docs   Access To Care Woes   Public Coverage More Efficient   Empowering Consumers

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Pricing & Payment

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Pricing And Payment Issues For Hospitals

Tales abound of patients carrying around shopping bags full of mysterious notices from hospitals. The notices all carry the title "Explanation of Benefits." Rarely do they explain much to a layperson or even to David Brailer, the national coordinator for health information technology. Brailer was referring to bills for his four-year-old when he was quoted in the New York Times on 13 October 2005 as saying, "I can’t figure out what happened, or what I’m supposed to do. I can’t figure out what care it was related to or who did what." The hospital billing system was described as a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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