There is no incentive for physicians to disclose pricing if health insurers don’t:
Brewer says that, despite all the complexity, he could publish his rates. But why should he tip his financial hand when health plans and hospitals keep their charges under wraps. Rates should be transparent, he writes, and when “the insurers and hospitals show theirs, I’ll show mine.”
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I’m trying to change that. Go here and tear down the walls of secrecy. It just takes a minute to enter your information on a very simple script program. I want to help you help others know how much their care will really cost.
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Dr. Brewer seems to have fallen into the insurance companies gravitational field and doesn’t know it. He seems to forget that he in fact works for the patients and he should publish his fees for the very simple reason that they his customers have the right to know.
It is a shell game that he is consenting to play. He can always decide what he ought to charge, collect it from his patients, and let any “games” go on between them and their insurer.
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