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How much will that surgery cost? Hospital prices remain largely unhelpful

When people go for surgery and aren’t clear upfront what the cost will be, it stokes fear, she said. “Because they’re going in blind.”

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Theresa Schmotzer of Goodyear, Arizona, says she used price data she found online to negotiate her out-of-pocket costs for outpatient surgery last year. Schmotzer says she wishes hospitals themselves offered a menu with prices for procedures. “We need that level of transparency,” she says. (Theresa Schmotzer)
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