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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 934969" data-attributes="member: 13254">Wanna venture a guess who decides on how much a doctor gets paid for the various services they provide? You may think it is the Doctors, but that isn&#039;t exactly correct. Bottom line is, it is the government that makes that decision Medicare dictates how much is paid for a procedure and that is what the private insurance companies base their payouts on as well. To use made up numbers for example: An appendectomy pays are: Patient pays $10, 000 , private insurance pays $6,000 , Medicare pays $4,000. The doctor has little leeway on setting that price. As I said, these are made up numbers but a fairly accurate example of the pricing structure.&nbsp; The amount of time a patient can stay in the hospital is limited also, depending on the patients given diagnoses and current condition. A person receiving that appendectomy to be dismissed from the hospital in 2-3 days tops unless unexpected complications arise. All these circumstances are derived from Medicare/Medicaid , aka the government.&nbsp; &nbsp;And this is the USA, the land of free enterprise,.....right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 934969, member: 13254"] Wanna venture a guess who decides on how much a doctor gets paid for the various services they provide? You may think it is the Doctors, but that isn't exactly correct. Bottom line is, it is the government that makes that decision Medicare dictates how much is paid for a procedure and that is what the private insurance companies base their payouts on as well. To use made up numbers for example: An appendectomy pays are: Patient pays $10, 000 , private insurance pays $6,000 , Medicare pays $4,000. The doctor has little leeway on setting that price. As I said, these are made up numbers but a fairly accurate example of the pricing structure. The amount of time a patient can stay in the hospital is limited also, depending on the patients given diagnoses and current condition. A person receiving that appendectomy to be dismissed from the hospital in 2-3 days tops unless unexpected complications arise. All these circumstances are derived from Medicare/Medicaid , aka the government. And this is the USA, the land of free enterprise,.....right. [/QUOTE]

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