| [HN Gopher] Hospitals lift curtain on prices, reveals giant swin...
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Hospitals lift curtain on prices, reveals giant swings for hips,
knees and more
Author : theonlyklas
Score : 26 points
Date : 2021-03-12 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| wdn wrote:
| Only in US that we don't know the price of the health service we
| are redeeming.
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| When I go get my car fix and I would go around to get an estimate
| for multiple body shop even if it is under insurance. But when it
| come to health care, you ask them for a cash price, they said
| they don't know.
| darkwizard42 wrote:
| They will outright REFUSE to give you a quote...forget out-of-
| network, even IN network?!
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| This is so astonishing cause you would assume they have
| NEGOTIATED the rate given its in network so there is little
| variability in what can be charged by the doctor and what can
| be thrust upon the customer. ex. if you charge $100K more than
| other in-network doctors, good luck, cause the insurance
| company is only paying the doctor $5,000 no matter what and the
| customer will be on the hook for X% of that (outside of
| deductible and other math required to quote a price)...
| 1cvmask wrote:
| In other countries you can see prices before making a decision.
| Funny that this a (sticker) shocker to us still today.
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