Doctors: if a patient made you aware that the diagnostic center you refer to is more than double others would you stop sending patients there?

I currently am pissed to no end about a bill for a CT scan. It is more than double what I expected. I have done some preliminary research and found that my guess is correct and this particular hospital, Methodist, is charging much more than other hospitals and diagnosic centers in the area.

It seems the doctor who did the referral is associated with Methodist, I don’t just mean she has credentials there, but that the practice might be a Methodist practice? It is unclear to me.

I am so annoyed I plan to get reliable data on prices and send it to the doctor, maybe doctors, my insurance company, Methodist hospital, my contacts in the news, and tell my friends. If it was a couple hundrend dollars more or less I would not give it a second thought, but it is minimum $1000—$2000 more than other prices I have seen so far.

So, I was wondering, will doctors even care to know? Will it change where you refer, even if it is referring to a hospital or diagnostic center you are not associated with?