Billing in U.S. health care: You can’t believe it until you’ve experienced it. Price transparency seems to be coming gradually, at least in convenient clinics and places like the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, which post their prices. However, when it comes to hospitals and health insurers, we do not appear to be making much progress.
Last month, I wrote about two healthcare experts who became patients and who got befuddled and bemused by the outrageous and appalling bills that started flying at them soon after their procedures. Here are a couple more examples:
Read the entire column at NCPA's Health Policy Blog.
Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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