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Consumers need the ability to share actual cost in order to correct the inconsistency of the healthcare industry. This article appeared on NPR and is a classic case of a consumer trapped in a system with out any consumer checks and balances. The huge imbalance between the hospital and out patient facility PRICING can be minimized via aggressive consumer price sharing. Not the insurance company sharing, not the hospital, not the doctor, BUT CONSUMERS SHARING.
The more the sharing the more the pressure for the local health care providers to correct the disparity as more and more consumers control their healthcare dollars by way of higher deductibles and max out of pocket expenses. Even in network one would learn there is HUGE MONEY to be saved for every person and every family that would share prices online. YOU CAN START TODAY BY SHARING YOUR PRICE EXPERIENCES ON CASHDOCTOR.COM

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/04/09/598794123/bill-of-the-month-a-tale-of-2-ct-scanners-one-richer-one-poorer

Bill Of The Month: A Tale Of 2 CT Scanners — One Richer, One Poorer Why is the price of a CT scan 33 times higher in a hospital emergency room than in an outpatient imaging center just down the street?

Total transparency is needed everywhere in healthcare, but the power is not in ones ability to "see" a price before or after a procedure. Transparency is about consumers having the power of the purse. Transparency is about creating a competitive marketplace where competition corrects price imbalances PRIOR to a consumer ever engaging the system. The idea that price will be determined by the provider is eliminated in a transparent market place. The day is coming and you can be a part of the change. SHARE your price experiences on cashdoctor.com for others to use and learn. We want to send a message to the healthcare industry the consumer is going to "out" them all.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2619518?widget=personalizedcontent&previousarticle=2677058&redirect=true

Achieving the Promise of Price Transparency In the United States, wide variation in prices for the same medical services continue to persist both across the country and within geographic areas, with no reliable correlation between clinician prices and quality. Helping patients and physicians identify and select high-quality medical services.....

Happy New Year!

Major search engines were providing irrelevant information that could lead to incorrect self-diagnosis, self-treatment and ultimately possible harm. How much potential for harm? Only three of the first 10 results displayed by the search engines were were highly useful for self-diagnosis and only half of the top 10 were somewhat relevant to the self-diagnosis of the medical condition.

http://www.cashdoctor.com/?SERVICE=BLOG_ENTRY&TG_KE_BLOG_ENTRY=21437197

Self-diagnosis in the age of internet Some time ago in February those of us keeping an eye on news related to healthcare got quite excited by Google’s announcement that it will start displaying relevant medical facts in the answer box we started to get familiar with or within an app on your smartphone.

Why not? ;-)

If You're Comfortable, Change Something

When technology can outperform people

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/57307/20150602/software-reads-facial-expressions-monitor-kids-pain-hospital.htm

Software Reads Facial Expressions To Monitor Kids’ Pain While In Hospital Pain in children often goes unnoticed because they lack the skills to communicate it. New computer software could eliminate the need for self-reporting pain by reading it directly from the child’s face.

Yea for the small business owners - Doctors

http://medcitynews.com/2015/05/minnesota-excludes-solo-docs-from-ehr-mandate/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4f43f61843-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-4f43f61843-67067437

Minnesota excludes solo docs, cash practices from EHR mandate Minnesota will exempt solo practitioners and cash-only medical practices from a rule requiring all healthcare providers in the state to adopt interoperable electronic health records. It may be little more than a symbolic gesture, however, because there currently is no penalty for noncompliance.

Affordable Care - NOT!

http://news.investors.com/politics-obamacare/051815-753015-obamacare-insurers-propose-big-2016-premium-hikes.htm

ObamaCare Premium Increases Next Year May Shock You The top ObamaCare exchange insurers in six states where 2016 rate requests have already been filed are seeking to raise rates an average 18.6% next year.

Healthcare coverage... at any price?

Damaged Goods - How can our politicians represent the people when they are paid off by American and Foreign corporations?

http://medcitynews.com/2015/05/heres-how-much-healthcare-paid-hillary-clinton-to-talk/

Here’s how much healthcare paid Hillary Clinton to talk Hillary Clinton earned more than $2 million for healthcare speeches