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> your procedure is very different if your doctor decides they could use a specialist consult. The necessity of the specialist consult may be unexpected, but it doesn't follow that the cost of it should be secret or obscure, eh? The intrinsic unpredictability of health care isn't an excuse for additional unpredictability of cost.
Agreed, but a lot of people interpret "transparency" as "Your knee surgery will cost $4500", not a flow chart of possible costs.
Sure, but that's their problem, eh?