4 Hospital sticker shock.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

It's a surprise no one just home from the hospital wants to get. After carefully choosing a facility in your insurer's network, you receive a bill from a provider who works at the facility but is outside the network. It happens more often than you might think. In California, for example, nearly 1 in 4 patients treated at a hospital in the previous two years said they'd received an unexpected bill from an out-of-network provider, according to a 2015 Consumers Union survey. A new law in the Golden State limits what patients owe to no...