Hospital billing is an outrage, just like the article claims. This corresponds to what the NPR report on the topic concluded: chargemaster rates are absolute fiction, invented to offer insurance company negotiators good deals, and utterly unrelated to costs.
Unfortunately, they do relate to actual costs for those most unable to bear them -- primarily uninsured middle and lower middle class people who face these ludicrous bills at face value and too often have their financial lives severely encumbered by them. The article does a great job of illustrating this.
Unfortunately, they do relate to actual costs for those most unable to bear them -- primarily uninsured middle and lower middle class people who face these ludicrous bills at face value and too often have their financial lives severely encumbered by them. The article does a great job of illustrating this.