Texas Health hospitals charge over three times Medicare rates - and want a big increase

Dallas-Fort Worth’s market-share leader, threatening to end Blue Cross contract Oct. 4, is also the state’s pricing leader. How much of a pay raise does Texas Health Resources need? The region’s largest health system, controlling nearly a quarter of the hospital market, already has the highest health care charges in North Texas — roughly a third higher than the average for the state and nation.

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