[plants]

This is what infuriates me the most about healthcare in the US. I give someone my card, they enter the numbers with no indication of whether or not everything will be covered by insurance (they assume you just know).

Then, a month later, I receive a bill indicating a routine procedure that I assumed out of ignorance was covered by insurance (since they took my card and entered the numbers without saying anything to the contrary) for $500 (or, god forbid, more).

If I knew a salad at a restaurant were $200, I probably wouldn’t order it. There is no basic transparency in medical billing, and that needs to change.

[lazide]

It’s actually even worse. If you (or the Dr’s) could reliably tell how it was even going to be coded (aka categorized/identified) in the system in advance, it would already be a huge step up.

Then you’d only have a handful of different prices you might have to pay.