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Virginia CHESS State Survey Errata
An error in statistical software used to analyze the survey findings led to incorrect statistics being generated for the number of privately-insured Virginians who made one or more attempts to address their surprise medical bill. This is how the data changed after the correction:
| Originally Published Number | Corrected Number | |
| Percent of private-insured Virginians who received a surprise medical bill who made any attempt to resolve the bill before paying it. | 72% | 78% |
| Percent of private-insured Virginians who received a surprise medical bill who took more than one step to resolve the bill before paying it. | 12% | 41% |
While we were updating this Data Brief, we decided to report surprise medical bill in a different way: as a percentage of all those receiving a bill, not as a percentage of all those with private insurance, for additional clarity.
| What about the bill surprised you? | Originally published (correctly) as a percent of all privately insured | Now reported as a percent of all privately insured with a surprise medical bill |
| Amount charged was higher than expected | 18% | 65% |
| A bill from a doctor you didn’t expect | 8% | 29% |
| Charged out-of-network rates when I thought the services were in-network | 4% | 15% |
| Charged for services I didn’t receive | 2% | 6% |
| Something else unexpected | 4% | 13% |
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