STATE & NATIONAL: It seems unconscionable, the fees that are being charged to outpatients receiving treatment with their physicians who are officing at hospital facilities. Patients including families whose children are suffering with diseases like diabetes or asthma are having to pay exorbitant additional fees incurred during their doctor visits.
By Anne M. Erbynstein
In the city of Houston, Texas, one family—a mother and her two children who are being treated for diabetes—is being forced to pay as much as $400 dollars above the family's insurance premium and the added cost are all a part of a new trend among medical facilities that are charging "facility fees."
Facility fees are the fees paid to the hospital or other medical facility meant to cover overhead , equipment use ...and the virtual opening of the medical; facility entrance door to simply walk through.
Today, facilities fees are a payment that is made that is added to the insurance coverage had by the patient. According to reports, hospital are entitled, by law, to charge a facility fee.
In a recent interview with KHOU, Houston, Mindy Easterbrook described the matter as "outrageous..." According to Mrs. Easterbrook's comments, her very recent experience with her children's hospital treatment facility in Houston, Texas .
The Texas Children's Hospital is one example of medical facilities whose physicians house their offices in building associated with hospitals and are regarded as hospital facilities. The situation , around since November, 2023, is not isolated to Teas—states across the country are falling in line and charging admitted and out-patients facility fees.
Easterbrook commented that her two diabetes suffering children "are seeing a good doctor..." and are apparently quite well treated. Easterbrook stated that the fees are, however, quite costly at a time when the cost of insurance is also, a considerable matter of her family's concern.
Mrs Easterbrook is being charged for $405.0 dollars room fees for her children's outpatient visits other families report paying $290 dollars for the 'observation and treatment room.' Today, the lawmakers are approaching the federal government authorizing medical agencies in regard to the high cost imposed on patients and families insisting that the cost be lowered while, in the state of Connecticut, legislators continue to reach the federal government imposing further bans on all facilities fees.
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