“Price lists are not really fesable for hospitals. there are just too many variables.”
Horse-hockey! Those same hospitals sure as hell know how to write up a cost and give out precise bills to patients.
Exactly! The next step is to require all billing to be completed upon discharge. It’s ridiculous to get hospital bills a year or more after treatment. By that point it’s impossible to remember what was done and contest a bill. I think that a coherent patient should be told what every procedure and pill should cost, and what every doctor who steps in the room will be charging, with rights to refuse service. And a full and final bill should be provided upon discharge.