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Hospitals should be required to post price sheets. If they take a dozen insurance plans with negotiated prices, then they post a dozen price lists. There's no w
by tedunangst 9y ago
Hospitals should be required to post price sheets. If they take a dozen insurance plans with negotiated prices, then they post a dozen price lists. There's no way this should be secret.
- refurb 9y agoThey already do, they are called chargemasters. However, they don't post the negotiated price lists since they have hundreds of contracts and thus hundreds of lists.
- hathawsh 9y agoCheck this out: https://www.oshpd.ca.gov/chargemaster/default.aspx https://www.oshpd.ca.gov/chargemaster/default.aspx You can download chargemasters for many (most?) California hospitals, over the past 10 years, in Excel format. I downloaded one sample and it has a list of 3700 prices, some of which are as high as $84,000. I'm really happy to discover this resource exists, but is anyone republishing the prices in a format consumers can work with? These sheets need UX design.