Lifeline: One Hospital Compares Their Costs and the Competition:s

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Event Date(s): 08/24/2002 | Event Location(s): nsiMilwaukee, Wiscon;Chicago, Illinois; | Description: Hospital in Minnesota compares their rates with other hospitals. INT MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN MS: Crying newborn. CU: New mother Lee Anne Jacob (ph) holding newborn daughter. CU: Newborn infant. 2 MS: Lee Anne Jacob holds daughter as new father Robert Jacob watches. EXT DAY MS: "Aurora Sinai Medical Center" sign outside hospital. INT 2 MS: In interview Robert Jacob, sitting with wife, says "If you get the quality care for a lower cost, absolutely." CU: Zoom in to document "The High Cost of Health Care". CU: Panning shot of charting listing hospital cost. CU: Names of hospitals. EXT DAY WS: Waukesha Memorial Hospital. MS: Man wheels older man in a wheelchair. MS: "St. Joseph" hospital signs. MS: "St. Luke's Medical Center" sign. WS: Hospital under construction. MS: "Columbia Hospital" sign outside building. WS: St. Francis Hospital. INT MS: In interview Waukesha Memorial Hospital Chief-Executive-Officer (CEO) Ford Titus says "We're sending a message, a message to payers but perhaps just as--just as importantly to employers who are really paying the bulk of the premium, which is there is a difference." INT OPERATING ROOM MS: Surgeons standing next to patient on operating table. MS: Gloved hand holding surgical instrument over open chest during bypass surgery. CU: Masked surgeon looking through microscope's eyepiece. CU: Gloved hands holding clamps over open chest during surgery. MS: Surgeons operate. EXT DAY MS: Waukesha Memorial Hospital sign outside building. MS: St. Francis Hospital sign outside building. INT ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL MS: St. Francis Hospital CEO Paul Dell Uomo (ph) walks down a corridor and enters a room. EXT DAY REAR WS: Man walking towards Waukesha Memorial Hospital. MS: Older man and woman walking outdoors. INT MS: In interview Dell Uomo says "I think the report was misleading, because it-it relied on charge information, on hospital charge information, and that's not the true cost to the consumer of health care." EXT DAY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS MS: NBC News's Jim Avila reports on camera. INT MS: In interview Insurance Broker Jon Rauser says "The medical community is selling to people who think their cost of health care is $10, what their co-pay was. And so as deductibles rise, as consumers have to pay more out of pocket, they certainly ought to know where the best deals are." INT FACTORY WS: Waukesha Engine's Dean Smith walks around an engine. MS: In interview Smith says "It was an eye-opener. I didn't realize there was that wide a difference in the rates for different procedures in hospitals." MS: Machinist Joe Barlow (ph) moves object on an overhead crane. MS: Tilt down from Barlow to machine. MS: In interview Barlow says "It's definitely something that we would communicate to our union members to try and contain health care costs and keep them down as low as we possibly can." INT CU: Panning shot of chart in document showing price list. EXT DAY MS: Man assists older man into wheelchair outside a hospital. INT HOSPITAL WS: Surgical nurses wheels patient into recovery room. VO: Avila signs off from Chicago, Illinois.