I encourage anyone that has had surgery elsewhere to compare their bill with the prices posted on our website. The prices listed include the facility, surgeon and anesthesia charges. We are willing to extend this pricing to self-insured companies willing to think “outside of the box” with carve out type of arrangements. Several companies have already discovered that they can save big by cutting their third party administrator out of the process and deal directly with our facility.
G. Keith Smith, M.D.
We have a great healthcare system, but it is too expensive. One solution is to make the patient the customer not the government or insurance companies.
We could have medical savings accounts with a very high deductible insurance policies.
We need to get the government and insurance companies out of the Dr.’s office, hospitals, etc.
They require too much useless paper work and interfere with the doctor-patient relationship.
There are many good free market solutions to high costs.
Competition is the best regulator. I want to thank Dr. Smith for his efforts to improve quality and lower prices
Comment by Norman Thompson — April 4, 2011 @ 2:47 am
Thank you for your comments…right on the mark, I think.
GKS
Comment by surgerycenterok — April 13, 2011 @ 6:25 pm