NC health insurer posts cost data online
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Price discrimination, price gauging, ceiling cost, medium and floor cost are all terms which serve purpose within the scope of open free market for consumerism in the microeconombic world.
The new grapevine courses into hospitals regarding the myraid of prices which hospital billing staff have for his or her ICD-9 and the CPT-4.
I think the medical administration has not yet made a decision regarding the knowledge of consumers. Consumers are now beginning to feel that perhaps medical establishments are cartells. I have chosen the term cartell because there is very little one can do.
Howver, I was taught at El Centro Community College in the Ultrasoundsonography program, that if a consumer is not satisfied with the work of the healthcare provider and or staff. The consumer can refuse to pay the bill and take the healthcare provider to court. The plaintiff would be suing the hospital administration because of price discrimination.
I do not know of anyone as of yet whom has made the effort to sue the billing department because of price discrimination. Let me know what you think of it.
Sincerely
Barbara Guster
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