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I do not have health insurance and am looking for a doctor. Is there a way to compare doctor pricing short of having to call each one individually and ask what each charges?
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I do not have health insurance and am looking for a doctor. Is there a way to compare doctor pricing short of having to call each one individually and ask what each charges?
@uscitizen, also untrue. The informed customer is the motive force directing progress in a competitive market. If you meant to say that groups that have a professional monopoly do not like informed customers, I might agree with you.
@koshergirl, I don't accept this argument. When buying a car, most people will qualify for different financing or negotiate in different ways and end op paying slightly different prices in the end, but Kelley Blue Book still manages to advertise an approximate value for each vehicle.
Furthermore, this is not an answer to my question. If you'd like to argue, please start a different thread.
But isn't that just the point? That they don't advertise in an apparent manner and don't you get the feeling that they should? Given how fast technology moves these days and the aforementioned feeling, I don't think it's a question deserving of such a dismissive, snotty tone.
The price should be the same for all.
@The Professor, thank you for your references. The move by Florida sounds like exactly what I was looking for. Also, in another forum, I was directed to healthcarebluebook.com, a resource describing "fair" prices for doctors and hospitals to charge (also without factoring in insurance negotiations). This seems similar to what Florida has asked its doctors to do.
@uscitizen, the pricing scheme seems to be analogous to much of what goes on in politics today, with moderate democrats required to take ever more extreme positions in negotiations with tea party republicans. Doctors/hospitals, trying to earn as much as they can, overbill the insurance company in anticipation of hard negotiation tactics.
Though I haven't been able to find an ideal answer to my question, to say the least, it seems I've inadvertently been working on what could be a very successful business model. Can anyone think of a reason why some company couldn't collect the doctor/hospital fees of individuals and post them online?
I do not have health insurance and am looking for a doctor. Is there a way to compare doctor pricing short of having to call each one individually and ask what each charges?
@dblack, do you think that this demand will change with the implementation of the health insurance exchanges (part of the PPACA) by 2014? It seems that as healthcare becomes accessible to all citizens, it will become more of a traditional market. Consider the evolution of any luxury good that eventually becomes mainstream: the automobile is a good example. What it was first designed, only the rich could experiment with it leaving the poor to look on in awe. But as manufacturers began to innovate in a way that made the auto affordable to the masses (e.g. Ford), there developed fierce competition centered around appealing to these masses (mainly through improving the apparent price to value relationship). Do you imagine something like this could happen with healthcare?
I do not have health insurance and am looking for a doctor. Is there a way to compare doctor pricing short of having to call each one individually and ask what each charges?