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   Hospitals Grab at Least $1 Billion in Extra Fees for Emergency Room   
      
   Hospital Fraud: While taxpayers footed most of the bill, the charges   
   also hit elderly patients in the pocketbook, increasing the amount of   
   their 20-percent co-payments for emergency room care   
      
   David DonaldThe Center for Public Integrity / News Report   
      
   The hospital billed Medicare for the two most expensive levels of care   
   for eight of every 10 patients it treated and released from its   
   emergency room — almost twice the national average, according to a   
   Center for Public Integrity analysis   
      
   http://www.nationofchange.org/hospitals-grab-least-1-billion-ext   
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