Don't wait for the bill to find out what the hospital costs getty

My older brother recently had knee replacement surgery. He tried to get information from his orthopedic team about what it would cost. You see, he was about to sign up for Medicare (I told you: older brother) and wanted to know his out-of-pocket costs under different insurance plans.

No one on the healthcare team could help him. Even as medical professionals, they were too confused by the insurance system to figure out their own billing.

That is unacceptable. But it is not even a full picture of how dysfunctional healthcare pricing is in the US.

I have written a lot ( here , here , and even a book) about the maddening inscrutability of American healthcare prices, so I thought it would be impossible to get even

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