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Let me start off with I worked in a medical billing office for the last 5 years and here are some things you'll never hear about:

Medicare pays only 15-25% of what they are charged, that is to say, if a surgery costs $40,000 they will only pay the doctor $10,000.

This isn't only medicare, it's literally every company. Every single insurance company pays only a fraction (usually 50%$ or less) of what the hospital actually charges you. If you don't have insurance you can just call up and usually if your semi-nice and fairly strait forward you can get the bill reduced to a fraction (30-40%) because that's about what they accept from insurance anyways.

Their prices are simply what they'll get paid in either case, so good job to these doctors, hope it helps less people get scammed and pay their full bills.