There is value in a physician being transparent with patients about elective procedure costs in this climate of value-based medicine.
Traditionally, surgeons are not expected to discuss the costs of a procedure with their patients. Instead, they discuss the risks, benefits and alternatives of a surgery with patients before handing them off to a staff member to discuss costs, OSN Refractive Surgery Board Member Jason P. Brinton, MD, said.
“I’ve heard it cheapens a procedure for a doctor to discuss cost. That may have been the case in the past, (Read more...)
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