“It’s the “providers.”:”
it is INDEED the hospitals ... you ever looked at what a cardiologist gets paid for a two hour session to open and stent closed coronary arteries vs. what the hospital charges for the cath lab, the disposables used in the cath lab, the stents themselves and the overnight stay in the ICU?
Doc who saved your life is lucky to get paid $600.00, hospital gets tens of thousands ...
I don’t know who your cardiologist is...but six hundred bucks is pretty shy.
Just curious, do you have any idea of what goes into building and maintaining an operating room or ICU unit? They have to consider stuff that I never would thought of in a million years before I started working at a hospital.
EVERYTHING is regulated. Every thing. Even in a crappy hospital. The redundancy alone must add 50-80% of what you might consider reasonable.
For example, I have to have at least two qualified personnel on at all times to monitor codes and alarm panels. The bathroom is in the isolated work area because we have to be encapsulated from the general public and unauthorized personnel. The fire panels are automated. My folks sit there. (They have plenty to do with other items). They must both be in there.
I knew guys in missile silos that had more freedom in their jobs.
Don’t get me started on the jihad against cardboard. Even in non clinical areas.
THAT stuff is what costs a ton of money. It’s got nothing to do with quality of care.