Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Web gives patients negotiating power - Bargaining Down That CT Scan Is Suddenly Possible - New York Times
The average provider — doctors or hospitals — has between 5 and 100 reimbursement rates for the exact same procedure,” said Timothy Cahill, president of My Medical Control (mymedicalcontrol.com). “A hospital chain with multiple locations may have 150 rates for the same procedure. Consumers don’t know this.”