“Health Care is Screwed Up” says our Co-founder in the New York Times
Insiders don’t know or share the prices in health care, which is one of the reasons costs get so inflated. As Reimbursify’s cofounder, Vatsal Thakkar, MD, writes about in the New York Times, the third-party payer system is broken. The lack of pricing transparency is a big part of this. Vatsal’s family member recently had some blood tests that cost $1,196.85. The negotiated rate by insurance was $34.59. Does he have amazing insurance? No. Does the third-party payer system create prices that