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How American Medical Care Gets Priced
How American Medical Care Gets Priced
Why does a hospital bill look nothing like a receipt?
Why do identical services cost wildly different amounts—sometimes in the same building?
In this episode of Doctor AI, Dr. Robin Blackstone unpacks the hidden architecture behind American medical pricing. Not the headlines. Not the politics. The machinery.
You’ll hear how billing codes replaced judgment, how committees—not markets—set prices, and how a system designed for accounting quietly came to govern care itself. This is the story of RVUs, CPT codes, negotiated rates, and the unintended…
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