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The surprisingly common reason your medical bill might be higher than you expect
It's one of modern medicine's most frustrating riddles: A person gets sick. She knows how tricky health insurance can be, so she does the smart thing. She goes to a hospital covered by her plan — “in-network,” in the parlance of health care. She gets well. Weeks later, she opens her mail and feels unwell again: An unexpected bill that puts her on the hook for hundreds of extra dollars because, it says, some of the care she got was out-of-network. How could this be?
Source: The Washington Post