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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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There are a lot of procedures that could be standardized (not all but a majority imo) Currently we have no idea how the pricing works or why.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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It seems to work on the greed factor, Administrators who are Not Doctors but looking to make major money . For example they buy 500 aspirins that cost them $5.00 for the entire lot and then if patients need them charge as much as $12.00 each. That is only one minor example !
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I was charged 15 for antacid while I was stuck in a hospital bed for three days. The total bill for 3 days was just over $20,000, no surgery, just IV bags of saline and a morphine drip. Thank God I had insurance through my employer. It still cost me $5000.

Hell, I wasn't even allowed to eat while laid up and had to be on a liquid diet for a month after I was discharged. And that cost didn't even include the hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) scan I had to get a month later.
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CW5 Jack Cardwell
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Great post!
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CPT Jack Durish
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Doctors or hospital administrators?
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Agreed,,,, I do believe that medical research is costly. Though Admins would be more affected IMHO. Because a doctor could leave a hospital and open a small practice of their own. Admins don't have the same option.
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