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In this last story of a three-part series, WPSU explains what state legislators are doing about facility fees and what you can do about them in the meantime.
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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Officials at the Bradford Regional Medical Center are now sharing the date when the facility will stop being a hospital; they say inpatient and emergency services are scheduled to end because of financial pressures on May 17.
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