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Hospitals and specialists should be made to post prices of their services … by law.
by egberts1 5y ago
Hospitals and specialists should be made to post prices of their services … by law.
- xyzzy21 5y agoPublish ALL prices prior to admission. There are hospitals overseas who precisely publish their prices for standard procedures. This is why pre-COVID I would travel overseas for any medical procedures that could be scheduled ahead of time: it was a known, low variance expected cost. There is no reason not to public pricing short of fraud, conspiracy and lack of ethics. We are already seeing exactly how much ethics/morals much of the pharma, health care and public health of USA actually have (i.e. next to NONE).
- jedberg 5y agoWe have that law in California. Enforcement is lax. Sometimes it's a single piece of paper up on a wall in a hidden corner. Sometimes they don't have it at all. But at the end of the day, it's not like you're price shopping when you're having a heart attack. You're going to the closest hospital and sorting out the cost later... which is exactly what they are counting on.
- drdec 5y agoThat is the law in the US as of January of 2021: https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency
- KoftaBob 5y agoThey are, as of January 2021. The effects of that will take some time to be seen in pricing.
- 0xcde4c3db 5y agoEven if you have the list, there's not necessarily any way to be sure in advance which price(s) you'll end up paying. The whole system is built around an incomprehensible fog of "discounts" and idiosyncratic distinctions among similar procedures.