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Hospitals could face $2M fine for not disclosing prices
- toomuchtodo 5y agoAhh, now we’re cooking with gas. As previously discussed here, the $300/day fine was woefully insufficient and as many mentioned, making the fine more painful for large health systems would encourage the desired behavior.
- HWR_14 5y agoWhy not go a step further. Let's take the "it won't scan at checkout" joke seriously - no posted prices mean the price is $0. No collecting anything.
- vmception 5y agoI want a way for health care professionals to have to stand by their “yeah this is covered by your insurance quips” which often turn out to be lies. Make covered definable, and accurate. Or stick with “I dont know” if the liability is too high, because it is impossible to know since they submit things for reimbersal. The shaken confidence may lead patients to just not follow through with certain procedures on the spot until they have a chance to research costs, which may be easy to form an opinion about if one tier of costs are posted by the hospitals in the area.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoThis [1] gets close to that. [1] https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/01/hhs-announces-rule-to-protect-consumers-from-surprise-medical-bills.html https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/01/hhs-announces-rule...