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

Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by dfxm12 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @09:36AM (#18769630)

We could have said no and gone elsewhere if we wanted, since the patient at least was relatively stable and we knew what was wrong.

Next question, if the patient did go elsewhere, would they get to keep all the test results/would the hospital share the test results with the new facility? Or would the new place have to rerun all those tests?

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by Faark on Thursday December 27, 2018 @12:45PM (#18771038)

> would they get to keep all the test results

Huh, is that a thing in the US? I understand the old hospital might not automatically giving them to you or the new one rerunning them anyway for practical reasons. But if you've payed for the tests, I'd expect you to own the results...

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Re:Hospital prices are about to go public in the U.S. by karmelapple on Friday January 04, 2019 @06:25AM (#18823251)

I believe so. We specifically asked if we could take our results with us, although I didn’t specifically ask what would happen if we rejected further treatment. I think it would have been fine, though, and likely they would have charged us at least a small amount (maybe around $100 USD).

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