Indiana has the 7th highest inpatient and outpatient costs in the country.
A Indy-based organization called Hoosiers for Affordable Healthcare says yes — and is encouraging local hospital systems to do more to lower their prices.
In April 2020, Brixton was admitted into the PICU at Riley Hospital for three weeks of non-stop testing. “It was absolutely insane. There’s no way. We would’ve had to have filed bankruptcy for sure," she said.But that’s not the case for many Hoosiers racking up tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in emergency medical care.Hoosiers for Affordable Healthcare Chief Advocacy Officer Matt Bell tells WRTV some reasons why that may be.
Friday, one of the state’s largest nonprofit hospitals, Ascension St. Vincent, held a public forum its costs.Representatives from the organization addressed those cost differences during the forum:
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