The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare racial inequities in New York’s health care system and exposed the deadly consequences when so many New Yorkers go without health coverage.
, bans hospital facility fees—a secret fee that’s akin to a hotel “resort charge” when you go to a doctor that’s affiliated with a hospital—for all preventative care. It also requires medical providers to notify patients in advance if they will be charged one.
, would establish a single uniform financial assistance application for all hospitals to make it easier for patients to find and apply for assistance, kind of like the common application students use to apply for college.found that 20 percent of Americans have medical debt, underscoring the financial burdens for patients beyond the costs associated with receiving medical care.
Now that state lawmakers have passed legislation that would put an end to harmful liens and wage garnishments by hospitals in medical debt collection actions, as well as provide patients with relief from hidden facility fees, we need them to take similar action to make it easier and more transparent for patients to apply for hospital financial assistance. As they say: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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