AcademyHealth: Surprise out-of-network doctor bills are much more common than we thought

Aaron Carroll

December 5, 2016

In a recent Health Affairs article, the Commonwealth Foundation conducted their periodic survey of eleven countries to see how access issues might have improved or worsened. I’ve covered these data before. I talk about what’s changed, and why out-of-pocket costs are still a problem in my latest post over at the AcademyHealth blog. Go read it!

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

AcademyHealth: Surprise out-of-network doctor bills are much more common than we thought

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