Gustavo Bacelar + MD + MBA

Medicine + Management + Medical Informatics

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Conta de U$76 mil por uma cirurgia de retirada apêndice para um paciente particular (sem plano de saúde). Se fosse para um plano, o custo total seria algo em torno de U$15 mil. Aconteceu nos EUA, mas o mesmo ocorre no Brasil.
No comentário abaixo, do colega nova iorquino Jay Parkinson, é levantado o questionamento: por que não se divulga abertamente os preços pago pelos planos e tomando por base esses valores se cobraria algo como 10% a mais para os que não possuem plano de saúde?
Aqui temos a tabela da CBHPM, uma tabela com valores muito mais acessíveis, mas ainda muito pouco divulgada e praticada (principalmente) pelos prestadores de serviço de saúde.


caterpillarcowboy:
$76k for an emergency appendectomy (via Boing Boing)

Reblogging for Jay. Pharma can’t cost that much, can it?

Healthcare services can cost whatever they want when you’re an individual paying cash. The issue here is that if we had an easily searchable way for us to know what Medicare or private insurance companies have negotiated this stay for, I’m sure this uninsured individual would be happy to negotiate say 10% over the cost of what Medicare would pay. However, this is probably closer to $15,000, not $76,574.85. 
If the government would open up this data, individuals would be far better healthcare consumers. Unfortunately, Medicare, in cahoots with the private insurance companies, has I’m sure been asked to keep consumers in the dark. But that’s just wild speculation…

(via kl7)

Conta de U$76 mil por uma cirurgia de retirada apêndice para um paciente particular (sem plano de saúde). Se fosse para um plano, o custo total seria algo em torno de U$15 mil. Aconteceu nos EUA, mas o mesmo ocorre no Brasil.

No comentário abaixo, do colega nova iorquino Jay Parkinson, é levantado o questionamento: por que não se divulga abertamente os preços pago pelos planos e tomando por base esses valores se cobraria algo como 10% a mais para os que não possuem plano de saúde?

Aqui temos a tabela da CBHPM, uma tabela com valores muito mais acessíveis, mas ainda muito pouco divulgada e praticada (principalmente) pelos prestadores de serviço de saúde.

caterpillarcowboy:

$76k for an emergency appendectomy (via Boing Boing)

Reblogging for Jay. Pharma can’t cost that much, can it?

Healthcare services can cost whatever they want when you’re an individual paying cash. The issue here is that if we had an easily searchable way for us to know what Medicare or private insurance companies have negotiated this stay for, I’m sure this uninsured individual would be happy to negotiate say 10% over the cost of what Medicare would pay. However, this is probably closer to $15,000, not $76,574.85. 

If the government would open up this data, individuals would be far better healthcare consumers. Unfortunately, Medicare, in cahoots with the private insurance companies, has I’m sure been asked to keep consumers in the dark. But that’s just wild speculation…

(via kl7)

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    Conta de U$76 mil por uma cirurgia de retirada apêndice para um paciente particular (sem plano de saúde). Se fosse para...
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    Reblogging for Jay. Pharma can’t cost that much, can it?...Here is an opinion about this...
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    Healthcare services can cost whatever they want when you’re an individual paying cash. The issue here is that
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    Cost in Canada is NOT zero. Canadiens pay about a 50 percent income tax for the luxury of a state run health insurance....
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    Reblogging for Jay. Pharma can’t cost that much, can it?