By: Tom Whitlow
The difference between the full price billed by health care providers and the “discounted amount” paid by your insurance carrier (if you have insurance) should be cause for any sane person to question...
View ArticleBy: Rese
As far as barganing for medical care. I am a three-year cancer survivor who goes for a series of CT and MRI’s every three months at an independent radiology center. My insurance changed a year ago,...
View ArticleBy: Bob F.
Yeah, great, just what we need, the car sales model adopted for health care. Hey, let me take that price on a hip replacement to my sales manager….we can finance you right now….and you want that...
View ArticleBy: Garth Gibson
With 15 years in hospital finance and medical research I can tell you if Mr. Cahill really does have the correct wholesale rates paid by major insurers then he’s obtained confidential information...
View ArticleBy: Brett
Check out today’s segment on NPR regarding cheaper treatments at hospitals better than what we have in the US: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7615619 I think as a country that...
View ArticleBy: Yeah...roight
If you save, say $10K, over the treatment of lymphoma but then have a complication from treatment (say a catheter infection with subsequent sepsis), how useful is that money you saved? Could it have...
View ArticleBy: Vincent Cushing
“It’s not consumer behavior that is driving rising medical costs in the U.S.,” said Robert G. Evans, a health care economist at the University of British Columbia. “It is the folks on the supply side,...
View ArticleBy: Bradley Price
No, I don’t want to spend my time doing this. Not at all. One of the small and smarmy assumptions that free marketeers blithely make is that we all have: 1. Unlimited access to bias-free information 2....
View ArticleBy: TOM
We should’nt have to bargain! Health Insurance would be cheap, if it were’nt for greedy, sleazy, unscrupulous, and crooked, TRIAL LAWYERS LIKE CANDIDATE JOHN EDWARDS! Every time JOHN EDWARDS sues a...
View ArticleBy: Janbaran
Can’t you guys get it right.. pricing is the only protection doctors and hospitals have to insure some reasonable measure of payment for services. You bill $900 and you are lucky if you get $500. It’s...
View ArticleBy: Mahesh J
Why should we have to bargain for our health-care costs? Why don’t our elected representatives make laws that ensure equality in costs for uninsured and insured patients. Why can’t they make a law...
View ArticleBy: Jill
I think some people are missing the point. Certain people with certain large insurance companies get discounts on the same services as uninsured people have to pay. This means not only does the...
View ArticleBy: Astrid Agimraf
The physicians are so tired of not getting paid by the insurance companies that they can’t focus on the patients or even be nice. They recommend drugs instead of getting to the root cause so they can...
View ArticleBy: Timothy S
Over ten years ago, I negotiated to pay upfront for the delivery of my second child and got a 30% discount from a public hospital in Dallas. Two years ago, I shopped around when I needed dental...
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