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Why are some rural Medicare patients paying more than patients at bigger hospitals?

Sources from AP say that in November, a public comment sent a Green Mountain Care Board analyst on a curious quest: Why were some Medicare recipients paying more out of pocket for outpatient services at rural, “critical access hospitals” than they’d have paid for the same service at the state’s bigger, “acute care hospitals” — even if the hospitals’ costs for the procedure were exactly the same?

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