Some advice from this podcast: if you require emergency medical care in the US, are given an agreement to pay & believe you may be subject to predatory billing, sign "I did not read." The ER *must* provide emergency care & this *may* provide some cover if you can't or don't payhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1167517720830603264 …
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As you might guess, I'm not broadly a fan of accepting services without accepting responsibility for payment, but IMO the standard practice of withholding pricing information from patients is wholly indefensible
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If I take one of my dogs to the vet for an emergency, the wonderful people there will immediately stabilize him, then quickly let me know what charges have accrued, what they'd like to do next & how much that will cost. I can ask questions, push back, or even transfer him.
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Yet if *I* go to an emergency room, it's my experience that many things may be done to me with little explanation or opportunity to ask questions, and I won't have the slightest idea what any of this is costing me until weeks later when a bill arrives. Wtf?
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Worse yet, your federal taxes fund hospital ERs directly. Since hospitals take federal ER subsidies, they should also agree to a price mechanism and at an absolute minimum disclose the prices. In an emergency, who can negotiate price anyway?
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This treats life-ruining debt, the full extent of which is unknown even to the doctors, as a concern that patients would be stupid to consider and thus have no right to be informed about. I also suspect it's dangerous, in that those burned once will often delay a vital ER visit
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