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Oh wow, so a "Tonsil Removal (Patient Under 12)" procedure has a huge price-range: $298.00 $7,830.76 $7,299.85 $10,243.23 $13,964.19 --- How are these ev
by k3liutZu 6y ago
Oh wow, so a "Tonsil Removal (Patient Under 12)" procedure has a huge price-range:
$298.00
$7,830.76
$7,299.85
$10,243.23
$13,964.19
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How are these even comparable?
- theplague42 6y agoIt's probably bad data. 7k vs 13k is reasonable, but nobody is removing tonsils for $300.
- CogitoCogito 6y ago$300 seems low to me as well, but the order of magnitude spread isn't suprising at all. About 5 years ago I went into the ER in NYC due to extreme dehydration. They gave me some saline and sent me home a few hours later. Later I got a bill for $250 which was above my ER $150 copay so I called them up and it turned out they didn't realize I had insurance. A month later I got a "fixed" bill for $3000 to my insurance of which $150 was my responsibility. My example of a magical 12x increase given single exact same procedure coded identically, means I find a price increase of ~43x from $300 to $13,000 between different hospitals quite believable.