Facility Fees

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Facility Fees, Part 3: What PA lawmakers are doing about facility fees and how you can dispute them

Sydney Roach

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.

Geisinger has this pamphlet at Gray's Woods to explain the hospital-based outpatient bills patients could see after their appointment. In the pamphlet, Geisinger says most large health care systems divide charges like this, and patients could have to pay more out of pocket.

Facility Fees, Part 2: The arguments for and against facility fees in Pennsylvania

Sydney Roach

In this second story of a three-part series, WPSU reports on the arguments for and against facility fees.

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.

Facility Fees, Part 1: What are they? And where are they being charged around State College?

Sydney Roach

This is the first of a three-part series looking into 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.

Geisinger Healthplex State College, formerly known as Gray's Woods, is in Patton Township.

Geisinger is charging facility fees at some Centre County locations, leading to confusion and outcry

Sydney Roach

Centre County commissioners and Penn State Human Resources are gathering more information about new facility fees at certain Geisinger locations, including Geisinger Healthplex State College in Gray’s Woods.