Hospitals release lists of retail prices for services

Post by ceejayoz » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 11:00 PM UTC

mehrdadn wrote: post #85

jtbayly wrote: post #34

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One hospital that I use immediately takes 48% off the bill if you are uninsured without even being requested. As indicated elsewhere in this thread, this is not generally the non-insured price. I'm afraid it is mostly irrelevant, but it is definitely the first step in the right direction. As somebody else said, it's more important to find out what real people ended up paying for a procedure after it was all said and…

> As somebody else said, it's more important to find out what real people ended up paying for a procedure after it was all said and done. Is there a bill-sharing website to cure this information from people voluntarily? Maybe someone on HN would want to start one up? Or would people be too reluctant to share details of procedures?

Several news organizations are collecting bills (and doing some great journalism with what they've collected thus far).

NPR / Kaiser: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/02/16/5855495...

Vox: https://erbills.vox.com/

Post by beager » Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 1:58 AM UTC

grogenaut wrote: post #44

beager wrote: post #26

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I’d rather see a Glassdoor-like portal where you can see what people really paid for billed services directly or via insurance vis a vis the “list price”. That’d be helpful to advise folks who might be negotiating a medical bill to know what payment is likely to be accepted.

What's stopping you from building it? I was also interested in this but wanted to wait until this data became available. Could probbably OCR out people's names pretty quick as well to privacy for them and make em feel better.

Nothing stopping me from building it but hours in the day :)

Would love to do it actually

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