http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/acknowledging-heatlh-care-costs.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/06/acknowledging-heatlh-care-costs.html/comment-page-1#comment-75987 Anonymous Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/06/acknowledging-health-care-costs.html#comment-75987 This conclusion is based on one woman's comment? <br/> On the contrary, I don't know a single person who wouldn't prefer to receive bills for their health care that itemize costs clearly, particularly after hospital stays when it's impossible to tell what services you actually received and were charged for -- or charged for multiple times.<br/> Even after a routine physical last spring, the bill I receive contained several pages of charges linked to undecipherable codes. They may mean something to clinic billing departments but obviously not to consumers, and it is up to the providers to clear up that mess...rather than point fingers and claim we don't WANT to know. This conclusion is based on one woman’s comment?
On the contrary, I don’t know a single person who wouldn’t prefer to receive bills for their health care that itemize costs clearly, particularly after hospital stays when it’s impossible to tell what services you actually received and were charged for — or charged for multiple times.
Even after a routine physical last spring, the bill I receive contained several pages of charges linked to undecipherable codes. They may mean something to clinic billing departments but obviously not to consumers, and it is up to the providers to clear up that mess…rather than point fingers and claim we don’t WANT to know.

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