As U.S. Hospitals Consolidate, Prices and Patient's Medical Debt Is Rising--Study

As Hospitals Get Bigger, Medical Debt Is Harder for Patients To Shake - KFF Health News If you get sick in America, there’s a good chance you’ll end up in debt. Four in 10 U.S. adults have some form of health-care debt, KFF has found. One surprising risk: living in a community where hospitals have consolidated — an increasingly common development as health systems merge or large systems gobble up smaller hospitals. That’s […] khnerich KFF Health News

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That’s according to a new report shared exclusively with KFF Health News by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit that has been tracking medical debt across the United States for years and worked with KFF Health News on our Diagnosis: Debt project.

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