HCCI’s President and CEO Niall Brennan was quoted in an NPR report on a shockingly high bill for a COVID-19 test.
From the article: ‘ “People are going to charge what they think they can get away with,” says Niall Brennan, president and CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute, a nonprofit that studies health care prices. “Even a perfectly well-intentioned provision like this can be hijacked by certain unscrupulous providers for nefarious purposes.”
Even before the pandemic, wide variability in the prices for common procedures such as cesarean sections and blood tests had been driving up the cost of health care, Brennan says. These discrepancies “happen every single day, millions of times a day.” ‘
A COVID Test Costs $54,000, An ER Told This Patient : Shots – Health News : NPR
A businessman from Dallas got a PCR test for the coronavirus at a suburban emergency room. The charge for his test was “egregious” but not illegal, say health care analysts. Here’s what happened.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/09/30/1039788368/covid-test-high-bill-er