Inflation in Hospital Charges

Résumé du livre

In January, Barbara Wynn testified at a California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee hearing reviewing the billing practices of hospitals owned by Tenet Health and the implications for the California workers' compensation program Tenet hospitals are under investigation by the Medicare program for inflating their charges to generate allegedly excessive payments for high-cost inpatients. RAND was asked to provide an assessment of the potential vulnerabilities that excessive charge inflation poses for the California workers' compensation system, Wynn testified that the largest risks are related to payments for extremely high-cost inpatients and for outpatient services.