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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by elihu on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:32PM (#22387620)
It also can go the other way. I was once quoted two prices for a CT scan because they weren't sure if my insurance would cover it. If it did, they'd bill one amount to the insurance company. If they didn't cover it, I would be billed directly for an amount that was somewhere around double what the insurance would have been billed.

I got the CT scan somewhere else.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by pkaye on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:28PM (#22388066)
Insurance companies negotiate down prices so the hospitals jack up the sticker prices to give room for negotiation. I've read that hospitals typically get 20-30% of what they bill.
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