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Originally Posted by ord27
The answer then Tim, would be to allow only life threatening conditions to be admitted in the ER. All other "emergencies" should be funneled to neighborhood clinics.
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We do that quite often and people are even flagged as habitual offenders.
To give you an idea of how much $ we are talking about, last year we gave away $300 million in free/reduced/charity healthcare and we aren't even a big organization.
If insurance companies made their billing processes easier, you might be able to charge everyone the same rate. Insurance companies get varying rates by promising more visits and such. Insurance company A only insures 50,000 people, Insurance company B insurances 10 million. Insurance company B is going to pay us less because they are giving us more volume. It works just like any other industry. Person A walks in and pays cash/check/card. They might pay less because we don't have to pay someone to file their paperwork to receive funds and then pay someone to do something with those funds once they return.
Capitalism - it's what runs the good old USA.