According to Money Magazine, it’s bargaining:
According to a 2005 Harris Interactive poll, about two-thirds of adults who negotiated for lower prices with a hospital or dentist succeeded, as did three out of five adults who bargained with their doctor.
I’m sure many physicians would like to spend non-reimbursed time bargaining down their already reimbursement-reduced visits.
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It might be worthwhile to negotiate a slightly-above-the-insurance-discounted-fee
fee rate for cash on the barrelhead.
The cost of care would fall if everyone was paying cash. I could fire essentially my entire billing department and pass the savings on.
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