A new RAND Corp. report ranks Wisconsin as 10th highest in the country for its private-public insurance hospital bill gap. Patients with private insurance pay nearly three times as much as Medicare patients pay for hospital care in Wisconsin, highlighting concerns about employer health care costs.
According to the report, privately insured patients paid an average of 247% more to hospitals than Medicare patients nationally in 2018, a cost shift that was up from 224% in 2016 and 230% in 2017.
