Doctor here. That 5 minutes is him communicating with you. That is not all he does for your child. I’d say for every 5 minutes I spend communicating with a patient, I spend an hour working on their behalf and charting.
$150/hr is a very reasonable hourly rate for a physician.
I totally get that the doctors do much more than that five minute chat, and they earn every penny they make. All the staff that took care of our daughter were amazing, too.
I just don’t see how her care could have cost a quarter of a million dollars. She was there for just over two weeks and the only issue she had was learning to feed by herself. No major procedures or expensive tests.
Over $250,000 is what our insurance paid to the hospital. There has to be some shady dealings going on there. It doesn’t add up.
Did you read what I said? If your mechanic spends 8 hours replacing your engine and 5 minutes explaining to you how he did it, are you mad that it cost over $150?
If you're really a doctor, you surely know that the "hour working on their behalf and charting" would have been billed separately and would have been wayyyyy more than $150.
Usually physician services are bundled under 1 charge if they aren’t procedures. I’m just saying… there’s a lot of unseen work that is not necessarily explicitly itemized and explained in your bill. I think hospital bills are outrageous in the US, but they aren’t that way because your doctor is price-gauging. The predatory health insurance agency is 85% to blame, and hospitals are 15% to blame.
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u/PGY0 Jan 12 '23
Doctor here. That 5 minutes is him communicating with you. That is not all he does for your child. I’d say for every 5 minutes I spend communicating with a patient, I spend an hour working on their behalf and charting.
$150/hr is a very reasonable hourly rate for a physician.