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+====== Use the Charge Master find hospital costs ======
+Use the Charge Master find hospital costs
+When Karen and I were in California for her Dural Reduction Surgery I
+discovered that California had something called the
+[[http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/HID/Products/Hospitals/Chrgmstr|"AB 1045 and
+the Payers′ Bill of Rights"]] and
+[[http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/chargemaster/Default.aspx|Charge Master, or
+Chargemaster]] as it appears both ways, program that lists hospital
+costs.
+For example searching for "cedar sinai" brings up a downloadable spreadsheet of their procedure costs.  The highest thing listed is:
+"02781367 HB TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART      $510,125.75"
+"03400011 HB NM CSF LEAK SCAN	78650	 $1,476.66 	 $1,919.65 "
+That easy to get a price, at least if you know what it is called. I could not figure out the what Dural Reduction Surgery was called in the CM. :-(
+Now why don't all states have this so we can shop for medical procedures just as we would do for anything else we buy in our lives?
+In a different tho related matter I got a bill in March of 2014 for thousands of dollars from the hospital in LA, seven months after Karen died.
+Karen once got a bill seven **years** after the date of service.
+I keep thinking I should contact my representatives in Congress to get
+them to enact a law that says if the hospital and doctors can't get
+the bill sent out in 120 days, then the bill can not be sent.  What
+excuse if there to take seven **months** to send a bill?
+{{tag>ARTIFICIAL HEART CSF Leak Scan Charge Master Chargemaster representatives  Congress Dural Reduction Surgery Cedar-Sinai}}
+~~DISCUSSION~~