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Doctor doesn't tell people what they owe, it's usually the billing department or their office manager who does (at least in the US)
Source: This was my job after college. I worked for a mental hospital, and it was my job to tell people how much their hospital stay was going to cost. A lot of the time, these patients were hospitalized because they've tried to commit suicide. So glad I don't work there anymore.
Thank you. Physicians are just employees of the hospital like nurses. They can try to keep the cost down by not ordering unneeded tests, but a majority of the time they can't do anything about prices.
Whats cool is that physicians aren't allowed to own hospitals due to fear of "greed". But people whose entire career is business and making money can :).
A baker can own a bakery, a lawyer can own a law firm, a doctor can't own a hospital.
The US is a mess.
Doctors can run their own practice.