Effective January 1, 2021, Trump-era federal regulations require all hospitals accepting Medicare payments to fully disclose their standard charge for everything they do. Greg Dattilo and Dave Racer explain how well this requirement is working.
Category: Cost of Healthcare
What’s Wrong with the PBM Market?
People who need expensive drugs are being overcharged so that drug insurance premiums can be artificially lowered for everyone – including all the people who don’t need those drugs. In this way, the sick are subsidizing the healthy.
Monday Links
- The US Olympic Team will get air conditioning in Paris, undermining the French goal of cutting carbon emissions.
- It pays to work for government.
- If you want to hunt a gray whale you have to be a member of the Makah tribe.
- 30% of our food supply goes uneaten and is thrown away.
- Two disabled adults stand to lose $5652 a year if they marry. (NYT)
Hospital Owned Urgent Care Centers are Another Surprise Medical Bill Scam
Surprise, surprise, surprise as Gomer Pyle was fond of saying. There’s yet another surprise medical bill scam that most patients probably do not know about. It’s hospital-affiliated urgent care centers that are billed as hospital outpatient departments.