[radar101]

SO—Who makes up the difference

Those costs get shifted to patients who pay or have insurance, Pike said.

[mtbopfuyn]

We pay the difference. I had to go in for a proceedure once and the bookkeeping office flat out told me I was having to pay double because the last few patients skipped the country without paying their bill.

[Ben Ficklin]

"So-Who makes up the difference"

The border counties and the border states.