http://healthnewscolorado.org/2015/07/23/fixed-price-surgeries-come-to-colorado-retirees/ Colorado Health News and Opinion Tue, 15 Sep 2015 23:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 http://healthnewscolorado.org/2015/07/23/fixed-price-surgeries-come-to-colorado-retirees/#comment-21661 Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:46:10 +0000 http://healthnewscolorado.org/?p=16835#comment-21661 A very good reference for pricing, more comprehensive than the Colorado All-Claims Database, is the Healthcare Bluebook. https://healthcarebluebook.com/ Also, see how a private, for-profit surgery center handles pricing. http://www.surgerycenterok.com/ Consumers can also buy laboratory tests online. All of the vendors I’ve seen send you to the same local labs. Slowly but surely, secrecy and price-fixing are falling apart.

]]> http://healthnewscolorado.org/2015/07/23/fixed-price-surgeries-come-to-colorado-retirees/#comment-21653 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 05:26:44 +0000 http://healthnewscolorado.org/?p=16835#comment-21653 This is an idea both painfully obvious and long, long overdue. There’s simply no way for patients to make informed choices and/or provide informed consent for medical/surgical procedures unless they know what those procedures are going to cost. Most of American medicine provides no such information to patients, so, while fixed-price might not be ideal, it’s still far better than the current system.

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