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Facility fees provide impt revenue, but rapid growth raises questions about how these fees are set and billed. More importantly, they put consumers at huge financial risk. More from our team on ED affordability here:

In line with prior work, we found huge variation in facility fees even within each level. The top quarter of level 5 fees were more than $1,300.

Over time, facility fees have been billed at more complex levels, but also grew more expensive at all levels. In 2004, level 5 fees made up 5% of all claims and cost $100. By 2021, level 5s were 20% of claims and cost $930, on average.

We find that ED facility fees increased over 531% from 2004-2021, while prof fees increased 132%. Urgent care and physician office fees grew even more slowly.