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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130509:16:55:00

it is really important in these cases. but the second thing is go on this website is pretty friendly. i was checking it out. you go on the website, you can figure out that one hospital, quality control, as maggie suggested, better prices than another one. could go out there on the internet and get insurance. thank you. the charge master, jared bernstein. that s it for this edition of now. i ll be back tomorrow at noon eastern when i m joined by the great sam stein, michael tamaske and ben smith. until then, follow alex wagner on twitter @nowwithalex. andrea mitchell reports, duran mit andrea mitchell is next. keep it on msnbc. [ female announcer ] from more efficient payments. to more efficient pick-ups.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130509:16:51:00

a spokesman for keck hospital told the new york times, academic medical centers have a higher cost structure. and the vice president of the american hospital association told the washington post that the official bill called the charge master rate isn t always paid in full. quote, the charge master, my goodness, the charge master can be confusing because it is highly variable and generally not what a consumer would pay. even an uninsured person isn t always paying the charge master rate. we ll go to our own charge master. did you call me charge master? you re the charge master. what is going on here? we re hearing, like, look, this is just a sticker price, numbers, medicare pays less, insurers bark it down. the fact that you have such variation and some are so high and some are so low, the consumer must be going out there saying, what the heck is going on? it just really underscores the point that it is so important that everybody every other advanced economy

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130222:15:19:00

pretoria, south africa. it was inside a short time ago that a judge granted bail to olympic runner oscar pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend on valentine s day, so we will let you know when we see oscar pistorius. in the meantime, i think everybody s got a story about an expensive doctor s visit or hospital bill, but time magazine s new cover story bitter pill, why amedical bill are killing us breaks down the numbers. what they found is truly shocking. let me just give you one example. a patient was charged $199.50 for a troponin test. she is a year away from medicare. if she was a year older the same bill would have been $13.94. the prices are set by a computer called a charge master, and most hospital officials couldn t even really explain what it is other than that s how they ve always done it. i want to bring in time s senior editor jeffrey klugger. fantastic piece.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130222:15:20:00

thank you. thank you. there were so many unbelievable examples. let me start with steven h. he had out patient back surgery. total bill $86,951 out patient but just a few examples. he was charged three bucks for the ruler that marked the incision, $31 for the strap that held him on the table. $32 for a blanket and just the sort of like basic medical supplies came to almost $8,000. how common is this? it is exceedingly common and we have horror stories throughout the entire piece. there are stories of $18 per test for a diabetes blood sugar test. the little slip of paper which costs 55 cents apiece if you buy them on amazon. there $108 for a tube of vasotracin the antibiotic ointment i buy for $4 in the drug store when one of my children gets a cut. these are all as you say part of the charge master, this sort of

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140205:21:09:00

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