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Many hospitals don't discount from their list price for self pay. Medicare pays ~10% of list price. So, for example, if there is an insurance rate set at "130% medicare" (common to…

Generally, every hospital reported price is different. Many of the prices reported are "all in" service packages, but several also wouldn't include these ancillary charges. Forthco…

Exactly. Small payers are actually pretty hungry for this data. Generally, big payers are more privy to market rates (by paying for datasets, owning clearinghouses, etc).

Yeah, actually I can attest that a lot of our hospital clients have no idea what the hospital next door is charging / getting paid by insurance. So, a lot of price setting is guess…

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Yeah that's a generally interesting one because Kaiser's pricing is inflated assuming that all their patient's also have Kaiser insurance. But appendectomies do range quite a bit.

Hey man! This is a great comment. I work with Turquoise. We're actually building some stuff where patients can collectively bargain outside their insurance. But for now, it's most …