The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary.

Some hospitals regularly charge trauma activation fees, which can exceed $50,000, even for patients who are never admitted, Kaiser Health News reported July 16. Trauma activation fees represent the ...

Because there currently is no standard fee schedule or uniform approach, calculating trauma activation fees is left to the discretion of each individual trauma center. Providing round-the-clock trauma ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The News4JAX I-TEAM has found patients can be charged up to $34,000 in fees for just being brought to a trauma center after a traumatic injury, and data shows the rate of trauma ...

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s average activation fees at its trauma centers can be up to 10 times higher than those at non-HCA hospitals, according to Kaiser Health News. Trauma centers have ...

Ed Knight was taken to HCA’S Chippenham Hospital in Virginia after cutting his arm in a fall from a ladder. He was billed a $17,000 trauma team “activation” fee for what the hospital called a “mild” ...

The novel STRAUMA activation is feasible and safe in patients with stroke symptoms with signs of trauma, allowing for the expedited evaluation of both stroke and trauma. While this new approach did ...

Aubrey May Agcon of the Narrows Institute for Biomedical Research and Education is a clinical research nurse deployed at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Corona Clinic and VA New York ...

When someone suffers a traumatic injury, whether a severe cut or a violent car crash, advanced medical care can not only save that person’s life, but determine the extent of that injury’s impacts on ...

HCA charges patients an “activation fee” of up to $50,000 for trauma teams at centers located in half its 179 hospitals — and they often don’t need trauma care, an analysis of insurance claims data ...