The average cost of emergency care related to sexual violence was more than $3,500 per patient in 2019, new research shows.
Redlands Community Hospital in California. Under a 1994 federal law, people should not be charged for a forensic exam after a sexual assault, but many still are.Some victims of sexual assault are paying out of pocket for their emergency room care, even though federal law requires that their forensic exams be free.
The Violence Against Women Act, a federal law enacted in 1994, stipulates that people cannot be charged for a forensic exam after a sexual assault. President Joe Biden, then a senator, introduced the act in 1990. In March, he reauthorized the law. Dickman said he felt compelled to conduct the research after he"took care of patients in Texas and elsewhere who had been assaulted and were facing catastrophically high, impossible-to-pay medical bills."Ryan McFadden / MediaNews Group via Getty Images file
The data that Dickman and his team analyzed encompassed all patients who showed up to an emergency room for an issue related to sexual violence, including those who were uninsured. The average cost of care for uninsured patients was $3,673. Alina Salganicoff, director of women’s health policy at KFF, said it's possible victims were billed out-of-pocket by mistake because their hospital wrote down the wrong diagnostic code.
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