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re: Is the Healthcare/Pharma industry a giant scam?
Posted on 12/8/19 at 8:14 am to Flats
Posted on 12/8/19 at 8:14 am to Flats
quote:Yeah, really. Level of care in the ER varies. Age of patient will add or make additional tests unnecessary. Fourteen year old vs 65 y/o big difference. Which bone? Hard cast or soft cast? Just setting or is reducing the fracture involved? Pre xrays and how many views? Post reduction and how many views? Radiologist has to look at each of those xrays. If you as a consumer could sort through the mountain of charges listed on the chargemaster and predict what would be needed to correct your probably, you could probably come within + or - 5000% of the actual ER bill.
Really? Setting a broken bone?
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Posted on 12/8/19 at 2:07 pm to Diamondawg
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Radiologist has to look at each of those xrays. If you as a consumer could sort through the mountain of charges listed on the chargemaster and predict what would be needed to correct your probably, you could probably come within + or - 5000% of the actual ER bill.
And yet we used to have health care without all that crap. It's possible. It may not be possible under the current regs but I refuse to believe that + or - 5,000% is the best an industry can do. That's dysfunctional.
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