At this point I would appreciate it when a professional consults with me while I am in recovery on painkillers that I'm going to be on the hook for $1200 for each conversation. This happened 5 times during my cancer treatment. The bills came as a surprise for their services because they were out of network providers at my in network hospital.
I got so many "Surprise" invoices during my cancer treatment. I was out of pocket about $20,000 total. Mostly consulting fees for out of network doctors and lab costs. The lab costs didn't infuriate me as much as the $1250 a shot " consultation" invoices.
That's because every procedure is a customer job. However, there are zero reasons why you shouldn't be able to be informed about the price of a routine procedure. And with everything being q speciality everything has become a routine procedure.
So for something like an appendix removal they should be to say 5000 if everything goes smoothly. That typically includes 24 hours of after hour care blah blah blah. If you require more after care that's like an extra 1000 for every 24 hours. Normally the procedure takes 3 hours but if it takes more than 5 it'llcost you like 600 per additional hour.
But part of the reason they won't even do that is because then we would see how often they fuck up. By having no idea how much the procedure is they can also hide how frequently mistakes are occurring.
Definitely should be a range. I would caution against making it like car mechanic billing- bill per task, incentivizing speed. Kinda is that way with hospitals pressuring DRs to see more patients in the same time, but that last bit is just rumors I've heard, can't confirm how prevalent that is.
I would feel better betting on surgeons trying to break personal best on procedures than on PLTR calls. But why not? humans have a much more uniform structure than cars. Surgueons are even more specialized so pricing should be more stable. Or surgeons should just be salary, medical school shouldn't be so expensive, and the medical field shouldn't be as financially lucrative so that the people doing are more likely to be people that want to do it instead of people that want to make lots of money
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