Blue Shield COO Paul Markovich said in a letter that UCLA Medical Center’s rates for Blue Shield members have increased 98 percent since the middle of 2006, and its inpatient hospital charges are roughly 41 percent higher than Blue Shield’s average in Southern California.
UCLA Medical Center has not responded to the letter.
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