By means of Caresse Jackman, InvestigatetV And Jamie Gray, InvestigatetV
July 10, 2025
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Kelli Reardon undergoes an MRI twice a year to screen on breast cancer, a measure she said she had to take to protect her health. Her mother died of the disease at the age of 48, which brought Reardon a higher risk, and Reardon has closed breast tissue, making it more difficult to detect growth through a mammogram.
When Reardon moved from Alabama to North Carolina, she had little other choice than to switch from the screening in an image center to have it done in a hospital.
Then she saw how much higher the charges were. In the beginning, Reardon thought it was a mistake: “They made a mistake with invoicing,” she said. “They accidentally added a zero.”
It was not a mistake.
In this episode of the “Dould Care” series of InvestigatetV and KFF Health News, Create Jackman, InvestigatetV’s National Consumer Investigative Reporter and Jamie Gray, director of research, investigates how the type of medical facility where a patient is affecting – especially when that facility can influence – especially when that facility.
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