Are cash-only medical practices only limited to the wealthy?

When you think about it, how much care does the average patient really need? Over at Better Health, Val Jones writes that 75 percent of patients require an average of 3.5 office visits annually for all the medical care they need. That works out to about 1 hour of a physician’s time per year.

How much is that worth? Well, the going rate is about $300. For a year. Read more »

by Michael Spector

Over the past few years the cost for just about every medical procedure has gone up faster than you can imagine. You’ve most likely seen this cost show up in your monthly insurance premiums. While this has happened for just about every other type of surgery, lasik vision seems to have bucked this trend. Costs for laser vision correction have remained very stable.

The average cost for lasik vision surgery over Read more »