Background information: Years ago, a Sean Parnell (π-account: @selfPayPatient) wrote the book The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Healthcare Choices in the Age of Obamacare, published 10 January 2014.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HBUPLFG
He also administered a blog (from late 2013 β early 2021) until it was transitioned into a website (late 2021 β late 2022), where he accumulated from blog-visitors, vetted, and shared cost-cutting options en masse!
https://selfpaypatient.com/ (dead)
https://web.archive.org/web/20201108124454/https://selfpaypatient.com/ (archived)
As can be seen from the archived version, Mr. Pernell really compiled QUITE a menu of options! Unfortunately, the site ended, his book is a decade outdated, and healthcare costs are sky-high.
My proposal: Get him to revive and update his listing on promoted Federal (H.H.S.?) website! have the cost-cutting options taught in schools.
We NEED to know our options, or weβre just giving it to the rip-off insurance-companies, chargemaster-using hospitals, and other abusers.