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H.R. 1666, The Health Care Price Transparency Promotion Act of 2007 (2 comments ↓)
H.R. 1666 would amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for increased price transparency of hospital information and to provide for additional research on consumer information on charges and out-of-pocket costs.
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Angela Adam
This bill is extremely important for the increasing number of unisured Americans. This will protect Americans from financial abuse. Medical debt is one of the biggest sources of debt for Americans.
My daughter has a serious, chronic health problem, and I can provide documentation of ridiculous price gouging over 200% of retail value. I cannot believe some of the charges health care providers get away with!!! It should not be legal!!! People do not realize this because the costs are encrypted with codes on billing statements, and often the service/product has already been delivered before the bill comes. If you have a health problem, how are you going to mount the energy to research and investigate things that are important? And once a service or good has been delivered, there is no option to return it and go with something else. Knowing costs upfront is vital.
Sue Schuler
my uninsured husband was hospitalized in January 2007 for 11 days due to diabetes and alcoholism. with a 50% charity care discount, our bill came to over $20,000.00. This hospital charged us $1,873 a day for his stay in their mental health ward. over half of our bill was for the 6 days he was on this floor. if this hospital had of told us these charges, we could have asked to transfer him back to our hometown hospital where we receive a 100% charity care discount or to another hosdpital in Leavenworth that gives two low income discounts. Now they are trying to collect and will probably sue us. Yhis hospital has a 200% mark-up. how sad that is that this is allowed. I agree with Angela, it should be illegal to price gouge like this.