Price transparency remains elusive despite hospitals starting to post fees

Re:Price transparency remains elusive despite hospitals star... by z3ugma on Friday July 02, 2021 @03:24PM (#27715711)

The article references the MyChart Estimates feature which I would recommend, having worked closely with it in the past.

You’re getting an actual price from the hospital’s billing system directly, from an on-prem website run by the hospital and not the game of telephone or billing dept > website > scraper > 3rd party

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Re:Price transparency remains elusive despite hospitals star... by Hydraulix989 on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:06PM (#27717522)

Thanks. Is it true that it is missing basic procedures like "colonoscopy", as the article implies?

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Re:Price transparency remains elusive despite hospitals star... by z3ugma on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:48PM (#27755796)

Tough to say, as each hospital sets it up on their own. https://www.asge.org/docs/default-source/coding/colonoscopy_.... There might be a number of different codes applied to the same layman term for a procedure, so using Estimates and MyChart messaging with a financial counselor is frequently the fastest way to get the real answer.

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