Because there currently is no standard fee schedule or uniform approach, calculating trauma activation fees is left to the discretion of each individual trauma center. Providing round-the-clock trauma ...

The care was ordinary. A hospital in Modesto, California, treated a 30-year-old man for shoulder and back pain after a car accident. He went home in less than three hours. The bill was extraordinary.

Some hospitals regularly charge trauma activation fees, which can exceed $50,000, even for patients who are never admitted, Kaiser Health News reported July 16. Trauma activation fees represent the ...

After falling from a ladder and cutting his arm, Ed Knight said, he found himself at Richmond, Virginia’s Chippenham Hospital surrounded by nearly a dozen doctors, nurses and technicians — its crack ...

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare’s average activation fees can be up to $50,000 per patient, according to Kaiser Health News. In its report, KHN used 2020 data on trauma-team activation charges, ...

Ed Knight was taken to HCA’S Chippenham Hospital in Virginia after cutting his arm in a fall from a ladder. He was billed a $17,000 trauma team “activation” fee for what the hospital called a “mild” ...