San Francisco General Hospital ends controversial billing practice
San Francisco General Hospital has ended a heavily criticized billing practice that left insured patients facing huge medical bills even for routine procedures.
Reports included patients paying $50,000 for an appendectomy, $20,000 for a bike accident or $7,000 for a concussion — and that’s after their insurance had kicked in.
Media reports have swirled in 2019 about a billing system at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp ital and Trauma Center that charged patients…
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