Posts tagged: mean

Apr 03 2009

Cash-only medicine doesn’t necessarily mean expensive care

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 »