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Emily Reddy
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State College is the top small college town in the nation, according to a USA Today ranking this week. An expert panel nominates the towns, which have to have a population of 50,000 or less, and then readers vote on their top choices.
Geisinger Healthplex State College finished expansions in early 2025. Since then, the Pennsylvania Department of Health designated the location a "hospital outpatient clinic" of the Geisinger Lewistown hospital, meaning patients could get facility fees.
WPSU explores what a facility fee is, why hospital outpatient clinics charge them and what’s being done at the state level to protect people against surprise bills from facility fees.

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