
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, April 19, 1990                   TAG: 9004190656
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: BOSTON                                LENGTH: Short

POOR PEOPLE COST MORE TO TREAT, STUDY SAYS

Poor patients cost hospitals more to treat than affluent ones, a study today concludes.

The study, conducted in Massachusetts, found that poor patients were hospitalized 3 to 30 percent longer than better-off patients, depending on the hospital, and their bills were 1 to 18 percent higher.

-Associated Press

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