Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule

Re:Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule by jrochkind1 on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:40PM (#27517919)

Good luck getting a price like this in writing in advance. I have not been able to get doctors or hospitals to tell me what a procedure would cost in advance at all. "So you're telling the only way to find out how much it will cost is to get it done and then see the bill?" "Right".

An actually useful law might be:

Before an elective procedure, they need to give you the price in writing.

The actual price transparency law does not seem to have resulted in any price transparency.

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Re:Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule by ddingus on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @01:21PM (#27518500)

Medical risks and unknowns are very high, and to make profit metrics, they need to push all risk onto the patient.

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Re:Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule by Spivak on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:25PM (#27523855)

If only there was a financial instrument I or the hospital could purchase where to amortize that risk over a long period of time by paying a fixed cost at some interval.

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Re:Most hospitals aren't complying with price transparency rule by ddingus on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @10:42PM (#27524291)

And when everyone buys in, the costs and risks are well distributed. Makes sense for everyone, healthy or not.

After all, we are healthy, until we aren't.

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