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TexasTowelie

(117,464 posts) Sat Jul 24, 2021, 07:51 PM Jul 2021

Some Kansas hospitals are flouting a federal rule to publish their prices. Here's how they're doing

Some Kansas hospitals are flouting a federal rule to publish their prices. Here's how they're doing it.

As researchers, advocacy groups and employers push hospitals to reveal their prices, the industry continues to cloak what it considers trade secrets.

Now — in violation of federal rules demanding hospitals make those figures public six months ago — The University of Kansas Health System, Olathe Health and Children’s Mercy hospital systems still don’t publish them.

They’re joined by possibly thousands of hospitals nationwide and scores in Kansas that haven’t budged since a Trump administration decision took effect on Jan. 1 requiring them to reveal prices they’ve long kept guarded.

“We have not met the deadline. … I guess that makes us in violation,” a KU Health System spokesperson wrote in an email. “We are working on it.”

Read more: https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/2021/07/13/kansas-hospitals-federal-rule-cost-transparency-price-refuse-covid-19-donald-trump-administration/7938872002/
(Topeka Capital-Journal)

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Some Kansas hospitals are flouting a federal rule to publish their prices. Here's how they're doing (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP

I'd bet a $5,000,000 a week fine might make them rethink their strategy! NT Enter stage left Jul 2021 #1

Surely their billing is on computers. "Working on it" is as simple as hitting the Print button. Midnight Writer Jul 2021 #2

One problem is that each and every different insurance company PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2021 #3

Enter stage left

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1. I'd bet a $5,000,000 a week fine might make them rethink their strategy! NT

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Sat Jul 24, 2021, 08:05 PM

Jul 2021

Midnight Writer

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2. Surely their billing is on computers. "Working on it" is as simple as hitting the Print button.

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Sat Jul 24, 2021, 08:31 PM

Jul 2021

It doesn't take them long to determine price when they bill you.

PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. One problem is that each and every different insurance company

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jul 24, 2021, 09:19 PM

Jul 2021

negotiates different prices for procedures, treatments, surgery, whatever. Which means there really isn't a single price for anything.

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