Ask HN: Do any healthcare companies provide upfront costs?
What the title says. Can you get a literal checklist before everything you do with a cost. The insurance/billing after model is so unpredictable.
However, for a lot of health care the checklist you describe simply doesn’t exist. If I enter an ER/Urgent care there is no checklist that can be provided before I agree to anything. Insurance companies have extensive information about these costs, but that info is proprietary and not easily available (this information is used for a lot “prequalify before treatment” type things).
The one exception here is Medicare/Medicaid expenses. Both systems have exhaustive price lists for ICD/CPT/etc codes.