When Hospitals Merge to Save Money,Patients Often Pay MORE--NY Ti

NY Times did an extensive research and Reed Abelson reported that Hospitals Merger hurt Patients Who ended Paying More.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

Also Read:

https://www.modernhealthcare.c...

ER VISITS UP 91% -after Northwestern acquired Delnor and Dupage Hospital

Admissions Up 51.7%

Revenues Up 57.4%

Net Income Jumped 66.9% for Northwestern after they acquired Delnor Hospital and Dupage Hospital.

Northwestern Making More--But Patients Paying More.

How?

Medical Procedures Charges are 140% Higher

Colonoscopy Costs are Now much higher for Patients who are being sent to Delnor Hospital Facilities.

Call 630 232 2025 and Compare Prices for Preventive Colonoscopy .

Patients Co-Pays are Higher-- Medicare _CMS--reported that a Medicare Patient pays More for CO Pays for Colonoscopy 187$ for Hospital OUTPATIENT FACILITY compared to American Colonoscopy and Endoscopy Center,next Geneva Commons with much Lower Co-Pay.

That is true for all the Outpatient Procedures like MRI, Arthroscopy etc.

So Patients Costs have Gone UP