Do any doctors actively campaign to change these billing practices? Bogleheads.org seems to have quite a few Docs that post there, and the attitude is mostly "I went into medicine to practice medicine / Gee, I don't bill at all, I leave that to the hospital" and other great flippant attitudes. Probably a poor community to judge the standards of medicine by as it's mostly a 1%er forum that happens to have some good advice, but that's the only exposure I have outside of my 5 minute $400 visits with specialists.

You'd think they'd be a bit more invested in the process of healing, but I haven't found much evidence of that. I hope I'm horribly wrong here.