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+ | ====== Use the Charge Master find hospital costs ====== | ||
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+ | Use the Charge Master find hospital costs | ||
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+ | When Karen and I were in California for her Dural Reduction Surgery I | ||
+ | discovered that California had something called the | ||
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+ | the Payers′ Bill of Rights" | ||
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+ | Chargemaster]] as it appears both ways, program that lists hospital | ||
+ | costs. | ||
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+ | For example searching for "cedar sinai" brings up a downloadable spreadsheet of their procedure costs. | ||
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+ | 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. :-( | ||
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+ | 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? | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | Karen once got a bill seven **years** after the date of service. | ||
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+ | 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? | ||
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+ | ~~DISCUSSION~~ | ||