Illinois gets F grade for Price Transparency for Health Care Costs to help Patients choose wisely.

John Tozzi,a writer for Bloomberg wrote that A New Hip price can double across town. Same is true for MRI or Colonoscopy.

In 2014,a legislation was passed on State Price Transparency laws.Illinois got F grade.

New Hampshire got A grade, Colorado and Maine got B grade,Vermont and Virginia got C grade.

Beckers hospital review,modern health care ,NPR,others published this article about Medical Prices/Health Care prices transparency. Patients are finding that hospitals or surgical centers won’t give them this information before providing the service. Their doctors know the fees,but act as if they don’t know it.They do it because they work for hospitals or have partnership in surgical facilities--so they make good money from these facilities.In Kane county,monopoly or duopoly--is the reason for lack of price transparency.

In Geneva,Il.,price for preventive Colonoscopy facility fee can vary by more than 100%.

Call American Colonoscopy Center--630 232 2025-you will find their price less than half of Tricities surgical center price.They are located within a block. One reviewer wrote that he was stuck with 2500$ facility fee by Tricities which he was forced to pay.This is in addition to GI doctor fees which he knew ahead of the Colonoscopy.However his doctor did not mention 2500$ facility fee,because he is a partner in this facility.

American Colonoscopy Center is JCAHO certified and its GI doctor is trained at The Cleveland Clinic,rated # 2 in USA,by US News & World Report. A certified Anesthesiologist and a nurse is on duty as per Illinois Rules.

So call 630 232 2025 for detailed price quotes for Preventive Colonoscopy.There may be additional charge for bioposy etc.in case the GI doctor finds possibility of Polyp Cancer in your colon.

References: John Tozzi,”Thirty Cities where the price of a NEW HIP can double across Town.” is very good article.John has done a good job in getting reliable data.If your ZIP Code is not included,you can contact him on Email or travel a few miles in Chicago to get your Hip surgery. We talked to him about Colonoscopy and MRI costs.He suggested trying a website--but they have NOT yet obtained reliable prices for Colonoscopy.

Other writers make references to Healthcare Bluebook or Castlight Healthcare. We tried 60134 ZIP code-- the page shows--data for a Hospital 40 miles away and surgical facility 35 miles away.Surgical facility data is wrong as it has new owners and why would you want to pay 5000$ in a hospital-40 miles away-when you could get colonoscopy for around 1000$ plus anesthesiologist fee in Geneva,Il.-which is very close to you.

Castlight Healthcare data--we couldn’t verify as they wanted us to pay an annual fee and become a member.

Other websites tempt you to pay a fee or show you wrong data. SO BEST OPTION: CALL YOURSELF.Get the name of person providing facility fee and doctors fees.