Seems like another classic example of when the government gets involved in something, it gets that way more expensive than it ever was before.
Texas doesn’t allow hospitals to employ physicians and bills have spiked through 3 rd party management deals.
YEP, why they are now screaming there is a shortage of saline...salt water with electorlytes. You can but a bag with tubing on Amazon for about $15, hospital charges ins companies $400-800 for that same unit of IV solution.
Last upper Endoscope I had to have done, they didn’t even use 1 where they normally do. Just put in a IV pick line and inserted the VERSED with a big needle. DUMB A$$ make you fast and get dehydrated before they perform the Endoscope. As a Senior I dehydrate rapidly. Nor did they offer me even a bottle of water after or a paper cup of water.