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tptacektoday at 12:45 AM1 replyview on HN

25% of what, and where are you getting that number? JAMA studied this on an encounter-by-encounter basis and found BIR costs were in the tens of dollars for normal visits to low (100-300) for inpatient surgery.

Price transparency is a real problem. Overbilling is a real problem, so is overprescription. Important to keep in mind that those are on the provider side, not the payer.


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t0mpr1c3today at 1:21 AM

25% is perhaps on the high side of estimates, but perfectly plausible. If you prefer citations from JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2785479

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