But what's the cost? Complex hospital services have so many inputs that it's impossible to do cost accounting in a completely consistent way. Hospitals literally don't know what their costs are.
Come on. We can put a price on a house, that has thousands of materials, contractors, and other variables like property taxes and mortgage rates. But we can’t put a price on a medical procedure? Give me a break.
It is not only possible as the sibling post compares, they already do it today.
If your claim is hospital management and administration does not have a clue like a early stage start-up founder on VC money what their per-unit costs are, I am not sure you have negotiated a bill between insurance, hospital and you in the U.S, it is laughably false.
Even doctors are acutely aware of how tagging their services under which SKU is covered how by which insurance and by how much, and also how much they make from the hospital for that as well.