Hospitals around the state are deciding not to give Medicarepatients a break on their bills because they fear federal prosecutionfor paying the elderly people illegal kickbacks.
St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago, St. Joseph Medical Center inJoliet and St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin will tell more than 20,000members of their senior programs in letters later this month that thehospitals no longer will waive Medicare deduct-ibles and co-payments.Other hospitals Downstate have notified, or soon will notify, seniorsof such changes.
The programs, set up by about 20 Illinois hospitals, offered tosave seniors $492 in deductibles and up to $246 a day in co-paymentsfor …
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