My insurance company calls me after I schedule a service like lab/imaging to tell me of cheaper options. My doctors are attached to professional building at big local hospital chain, so I usually just go there because it’s easy, I know my way around, they are on same IT platform so I don’t have to chase down results, or long term they have all my medical history localized. Due to being attached to hospital though, cost of MRI for example is usually 10x versus competition. I still don’t care, because I have insurance and have no incentive to reduce the cost.
So if you want to make people price shop, it has to be coming out of their pockets for it to work. Dentists, PT, etc that you listed have much higher rates of cash/self pay.
So if you want to make people price shop, it has to be coming out of their pockets for it to work. Dentists, PT, etc that you listed have much higher rates of cash/self pay.