Health care financing: Fifty hospitals in the US are overcharging the uninsured by 1000%

Fifty hospitals in the United States are charging uninsured consumers more than 10 times the actual cost of patient care.

All but one of the facilities are owned by for-profit entities and the largest number of hospitals — 20 — are in Florida.

The hospitals with the highest markups are not in pricey neighborhoods or big cities, where the market might explain the higher prices.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/6/922.abstract[content.healthaffairs.org]

and

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-some-hospitals-can-get-away-with-price-gouging-patients-study-finds/2015/06/08/b7f5118c-0aeb-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html

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