Some hospitals regularly charge trauma activation fees, which can exceed $50,000, even for patients who are never admitted, Kaiser Health News reported July 16. Trauma activation fees represent the ...

Because there currently is no standard fee schedule or uniform approach, calculating trauma activation fees is left to the discretion of each individual trauma center. Providing round-the-clock trauma ...

The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s average activation fees can be up to $50,000 per patient, according to Kaiser Health News. In its report, KHN used 2020 data on trauma-team activation charges, ...

If you’re going to suffer a severe injury in Connecticut, it might be cheaper to do it near Hartford rather than Stamford. A fee that qualified hospitals charge when a trauma team of emergency ...

Nevertheless, Chippenham, owned by for-profit chain HCA Healthcare, included a $17,000 trauma team "activation" fee on Knight's bill, which totaled $52,238 and included three CT scans billed at ...

Ed Knight was taken to HCA’S Chippenham Hospital in Virginia after cutting his arm in a fall from a ladder. He was billed a $17,000 trauma team “activation” fee for what the hospital called a “mild” ...

The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary.

After falling from a ladder and cutting his arm, Ed Knight said, he found himself at Richmond, Virginia’s Chippenham Hospital surrounded by nearly a dozen doctors, nurses and technicians — its crack ...