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"The point is that there's no shopping around in the emergent cases." Why would "shopping around" matter if the amount the doctor was going to get paid was fix
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
"The point is that there's no shopping around in the emergent cases."
Why would "shopping around" matter if the amount the doctor was going to get paid was fixed (and published) in advance?
I don't understand why you think that pre-published fees would make this (alleged) problem worse rather than better.
In the (unlikely, IMO) scenario where one hospital really was massively more expensive than another, patients will almost certainly know that in advance, just as they know that they're going to pay more at Wolfgang Puck's restaurant than McDonalds.
- killjoywashere 9y agoThe rates generally are published, via CMS. This whole thing is barking up the wrong tree. The rates are one thing. Coding is the real art. Making sure you captured every RVU, CPT code (do you have any idea how many arterial lines might be started on a patient dying of diffuse intravascular coagulopathy?) How do you capture all that?