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Leaked hospital records reveal huge, automated markups for healthcare

A former nurse at Scripps Memorial Hospital showed columnist David Lazarus screenshots of the facility’s electronic health record system. The screenshots show price hikes ranging from 575% to 675% being automatically generated by the hospital’s software.



https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-10/column-healthcare-billing-markups

And that's just at the hospital. All of the materials for said pricy procedure are already marked up quite a bit

It's like shopping at Kohls. There is the price, the price you actually pay, and 10 dollars for every 50 you spend, to get you to come back to spend some more.

I stopped shopping there years ago.