For example, on a roughly 400k surgery, maybe 4-5k of that goes to the providers (anesthesia and the surgeon), dependent one on the codes billed for the procedure.
There are private groups that purposely do not take insurance and bill purely out of pocket with a one time fee including all follow up’s and subsequent care, related to that procedure, and it is significantly lower (like 90%+ less) than what an average hospital is charging.