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> Dr. Parisi, who spent less than 24 hours in Cancún, was paid $2,700, or three times what he would have received from Medicare, the largest single payer of hos
by mlindner 7y ago
> Dr. Parisi, who spent less than 24 hours in Cancún, was paid $2,700, or three times what he would have received from Medicare, the largest single payer of hospital costs in the United States. Private insurers often base their reimbursement rates on what Medicare pays.
This is what happens when most of the actual health care cost is going to fat administrator paychecks.
- Scoundreller 7y agoIt's 25% in the US on administration. The low end is 12% in public health systems. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/upshot/costs-health-care-us.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/upshot/costs-health-care-... The more likely answer is: Everyone else is paid less and everything else costs less. The extra costs in the US will be some combination of total nonsense, marginal (you should get some compensation when errors cause you harm) and very real (e.g. Replacing HVAC filters on schedule, having someone go through lab results for the last month's infections and figure out which antibiotics to use the next time when you can't wait for results).