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I'd imagine the lack of billing staff at NHS hospitals probably helps keep the cost down quite a bit?

• gvjddbnvdrbv 6y ago
  Sadly they've added a billing system for 'health tourism'. Before that they didn't ask too many questions just treated people. I guess the billing system pays for itself? Not sure.
• pc86 6y ago
  In the US medical billers make like $8/hr, I'm not sure that's a huge cost center compared to the $400k/yr physician.
  • ric2b 6y ago
    But is the ratio 1 to 1? Or are there way more medical billers than physicians? Anyway, it's an unnecessary cost.
    • pc86 6y ago
      One of my previous employers had approximately a dozen billers for 75-or-so physicians, and the average physician salary was $500k.
      • arethuza 6y ago
        Presumably the billers spend a lot of time trying to get money out of insurance companies? We don't have those either.. [We do have private healthcare provides but even they seem much cheaper than the US system] Edit: Any time the US healthcare system is described on HN it all sounds rather bureaucratic and stressful - as if being sick wasn't bad enough already!