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‘Bill of the Month’: The Series That Dissects and Slashes Medical Bills (kffhealthnews.org)

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[–] gAlienLifeform 13 points 1 day ago

Over 6½ years ago, KFF Health News and NPR kicked off “Bill of the Month,” a crowdsourced investigation highlighting the impact of medical bills on patients.

The goal was to understand how the U.S. health care system generates outsize bills and to empower patients with strategies to avoid them. We asked readers and listeners to submit their bills — and they kept coming. “Bill of the Month” has received nearly 10,000 submissions, each a picture of a health system’s dysfunction and the financial burden it places on the patients.

Since 2018, we have analyzed bills totaling almost $6.3 million — including nearly $2.8 million that patients were expected to pay out-of-pocket.

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While our “Bill of the Month” partnership with NPR is sunsetting, the “Bill of the Month” series will continue as KFF Health News investigates your medical bills. Keep them coming! And watch for future stories in [Jeffrey Bezos' trash rag]

Great idea NPR, everybody in America is pretty satisfied with their healthcare right now so this series is clearly just dead weight /s