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A heart bypass, for example, costs $149,219 at Sutter Memoria and $298,257 at the . A C-Section coste $22,710 at Mercy General and $31,093 at Sutterf Memorial. The database ranges from gallbladder surgerg to heartvalve replacement. It also include the total number of procedure s performed atthe hospital, chargew per day and average length of stay. The priceas are not what the typicalhealthn plan, Medicare or Medi-Cal but they do provide the averagde sticker price charged to patients withou t insurance. “As consumers are presented with more decisions aboutt their healthcare options, the value of cost and pricer information is substantial,” Dr.
David director of the Office of Statewid e Health Planningand Development, said in a press The agency already rolled out an Interneft tool that collects and displaysa hospitals’ free and discount payment policies. Both are available at oshpd.ca.gob or by . One big hole in the new database is that it does not reporgt pricing informationfor hospitals. A health plan and healt system, Kaiser does not bill patients directly. Information abouty the number of procedures and average length of stay is reporte d forKaiser hospitals, however.
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