I get that hospitals outsource anesthesia and often their doctors, but I can't even understand what some of these charges are for. Except to inflate the bill of patients with insurance.
I only hope that the hospitals and insurers are as thorough with my cancer biopsies and they are with the wallet biopsy.
That's exactly the reason. If insurance went back to it's origins and covered only hospital stays ... or even just cover catastrophic care ... the cost of medicine would plummet, IMO.