I saw this first in "Huffington Post," but it looks like all the major newspapers and wire services are honing in on a newly released federal data base of hospital costs (there's a link to it in the article below). The first couple of paragraphs give a good sense of the huge range of costs for the same procedure even among hospitals in the same geographical area:
"When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690.
Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center charges only $7,044 for the same treatment, according to a massive federal database of national health care costs made public on Wednesday."
I suspect this is just the beginning of what may well become a deluge of reporting:
Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences
"When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690.
Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center charges only $7,044 for the same treatment, according to a massive federal database of national health care costs made public on Wednesday."
I suspect this is just the beginning of what may well become a deluge of reporting:
Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences
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