‘I was dumbfounded’: Minneapolis mother hit with $24K bill for daughter’s allergy test — why patients across the US are suddenly facing massive bills for routine medical care

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Imagine taking your daughter to a clinic for allergy testing, then learning your insurer was billed $24,000 for it, $5,400 of which you must pay. You’d probably assume a mistake was made. That’s exactly what Kaitlin Johnson of Minneapolis thought when this happened to her.

Johnson called around and found most clinics charged around $1,827 for the testing. Yet, her clinic insisted the fee was correct. Only after eight months of fighting and inquiries from PBS News did the facility finally reduce that price…

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