Hospitals In Georgia, U.S. Charging Insurers More Than Twice Medicare Rates, Study Finds

This story was originally published at Georgia Health News. 

Hospitals in the United States are charging private insurers 2.5 times what they get paid under the government Medicare program for the same services, according to a study released Friday.

In Georgia, hospitals charge private insurers even higher rates, at nearly three times Medicare reimbursements, the RAND Corp. study found. But that’s not as high as the neighboring states of Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee, which are each above three times the Medicare rates.