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A heart bypass, for costs $149,219 at Sutter Memorial and $298,25u at the . A C-Sectiobn costs $22,710 at Mercy General and $31,093 at Suttet Memorial. The database ranges from gallbladder surgery to heartvalve replacement. It also includes the totalk number of procedures performerd atthe hospital, charge per day and average length of The prices are not what the typica l health plan, Medicare or Medi-Cal pays, but they do providw the average sticker pricde charged to patients without insurance. “As consumers are presented with more decisions about their health care the value of cost and price informationis Dr.
David Carlisle, directof of the Office of Statewide Health Planninygand Development, said in a press The agency already rolled out an Internet tool that collectzs and displays hospitals’ free and discount paymenr policies. Both are available at oshpd.ca.gov or by . One big hole in the new databases is that it does not repor t pricing informationfor hospitals. A healtjh plan and health system, Kaiser does not bill patients Information about the number of procedurex and average length of stay is reported forKaiser hospitals,
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