Sorry but another healthcare costs rant acomin'...

Oye said
This thread reminded me of a post over at reddit from someone who works in the industry. A long, but topical read, I think.

here's the article that spurned the comment:

One hospital charges $8,000 and another charges $38,000

and here's the comment:

badengineer comments on One hospital charges $8,000 - another, $38,000: for the first time, medicare has released the average costs of the 100 most common procedures at different hospitals

oye

saw that last week here where someone posted the link to CMS.gov for the MEDICARE costs.

what gets me is that these costs are for Hospitals. Facilities that have enormous amounts of overhead costs.

Im speaking about an "outpaitent surgery facility"- owned by a several of Docs ( this particular one is owned, in part, by the ANESTHESIOLOGIST that administered my Anesthesia - so not only is he charging for his service, he owns the doggone facility! ) - a facility that is designed for lower-end surgeries that do not require the "hospital" setting due to their relative "less dangerous" aspects. This one is prolly 4000 sq ft. probably $400,000 to build, another $300,000 to outfit and Voila!, they are in business. Charging Hospital rates, yet carrying 1/5 of Hospital costs.