U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem

Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem by Dove on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:21PM (#14739296)

Colorado has this cool law which, as far as I can gather, requires hospitals to report prices for various conditions.

It results in tools like this: https://cha.fhsclearquote.com/ You put in your zip code, how far you want to go, find the condition, and it gives you a list of hospitals, average charge, case volume, and 5th and 95th percentile costs.

I'd love a more nuanced analysis that looked at outcomes, too. Still. It's a great tool for planning purposes ("If I have an emergency, take me to . . . ")

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Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem by HarryHirsch on Monday July 10, 2017 @07:22PM (#14740464)

Hey, that's wonderful. Price transparency is always touted as the panacea for the relentless runaway growth in healthcare costs in the States. Here's the natural experiment. Has this law managed to rein in healthcare costs?

You'd think it hasn't, and the missing focus on outcomes gives it away.

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Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem by Dove on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:42AM (#14744553)

I don't think most people know about it. It's helped rein in healthcare costs in this household at least, though? ;)

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