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(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n
In the Byzantine world of health care pricing, most people wouldn\u2019t expect that the ubiquitous flu shot could be a prime example of how the system\u2019s lack of transparency can lead to disparate costs.<\/p>\n
The Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to cover all federally recommended vaccines at no charge to patients, including flu immunizations. Although people with insurance pay nothing when they get their shot, many don\u2019t realize that their insurers foot the bill \u2014 and that those companies will recoup their costs eventually.<\/p>\n
In just one small sample from one insurer, Kaiser Health News found dramatic differences among the costs for its own employees. At a Sacramento, Calif., facility, the insurer paid $85, but just a little more than half that at a clinic in Long Beach. A drugstore in Washington, D.C., was paid $32.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n
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