This place in Oklahoma has there prices listed: https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/.
I'm sure there could always be complications but there are supposed to be laws in place to stop hospitals from price gouging.
I'm sure there could always be complications but there are supposed to be laws in place to stop hospitals from price gouging.
Those prices don't include a bunch of things you'll also need, which makes them a little misleading. Some of those things are predictable, and some, like your housing costs for the duration of your recovery, are not. In a typical hospital setting you're paying to stay in a hospital bed, and they can't tell you how much that'll cost ahead of time.
It's probably a lot easier to determine all of these costs on average rather than per-patient. Medical staff could be paid a salary, and hospitals/etc could set a budget based on average costs and workloads. Then a single-payer system could collect the money needed into one big pool and pay it out based on those budgets.