"Fee-for-service” overpriced, civic groups claim

Two civic groups yesterday criticized general hospitals for overpricing their non-reimbursable service, such as MRI and CT tests or scans.

A survey of 44 first-class hospitals and 291 general hospitals that their non-reimbursable costs for spine MRI and hospital bed were found to be 10.6 times and 19 times at maximum as expensive as their counterpart hospitals, according to the Health Right ...