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Virginia Survey Reports
Statewide Reports
Prescription Drug Affordability
Surprise Medical Bills (Errata issued August 2019)
Regional Reports
Virginia CHESS Errata
An error in statistical software used to analyze the survey findings led to incorrect statistics being generated for the number of privately-insured Virginians who made one or more attempts to address their surprise medical bill. This is how the data changed after the correction:
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Originally Published Number |
Corrected Number |
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Percent of private-insured Virginians who received a surprise medical bill who made any attempt to resolve the bill before paying it. |
72% |
78% |
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Percent of private-insured Virginians who received a surprise medical bill who took more than one step to resolve the bill before paying it. |
12% |
41% |
While we were updating this Data Brief, we decided to report surprise medical bill in a different way: as a percentage of all those receiving a bill, not as a percentage of all those with private insurance, for additional clarity.
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What about the bill surprised you? |
Originally published (correctly) as a percent of all privately insured |
Now reported as a percent of all privately insured with a surprise medical bill |
|
Amount charged was higher than expected |
18% |
65% |
|
A bill from a doctor you didn't expect |
8% |
29% |
|
Charged out-of-network rates when I thought the services were in-network |
4% |
15% |
|
Charged for services I didn't receive |
2% |
6% |
|
Something else unexpected |
4% |
13% |
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