Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S.

Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by justaguyhere on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:04AM (#18769208)

by my initialing a form we had, their balance due us was 0

That is very nice of you. I hope others like you in positions of power do the same!

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by bookofjoe on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:14AM (#18769229)

As I recall, every fellow attending did exactly what I did whenever they received a letter like that. It happened so infrequently, and our department billed so many tens of millions of dollars/year, it wasn't even a ripple in the pond.

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by justaguyhere on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:20AM (#18769259)

it wasn't even a ripple in the pond.

True, but it did make a difference to those people you helped! so yeah, kudos to you.

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by BigChiefSmokem on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:44AM (#18769378)

I'm up voting your comment, people on this site can be ridiculous.

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by phkahler on Thursday December 27, 2018 @09:26AM (#18769569)

After thinking about this, I realized he probably didn't do the job for free. Even though "anesthesia" is broken out as a line item on the bill from the hospital, it's not what the anesthesiologist gets paid. It's probably not a passed-through charge like it appears to be.

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by bookofjoe on Saturday December 29, 2018 @07:34AM (#18783322)

We were on salary, not paid by the case.

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by loblollyboy on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:33AM (#18769312)

Like our elected officials for example

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