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Fifty hospitals in the United States are charging uninsured consumers more than 10 times the actual cost of patient care, according to research published Monday. All but one of the these facilities is owned by for-profit entities, and by far the largest nu Major errors during surgery are rare, but preventable mistakes still happen in hospitals throughout the United States, a new review finds. In about 1 in 100,000 surgeries, doctors make a "wrong site" error — for example, they operate on the wrong side of The study, conducted by experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and from Washington & Lee University who analyzed Medicare cost reports, found that many hospitals in the United States are charging unbelievably exorbitant fees. Even the most cost-conscious consumer — if it's a patient who's lost consciousness — has no control over which hospital the ambulance chooses. Scenarios like this happen, and where the ambulance delivers you can result in dramatically different bills. The prices of items in a grocery store are typically clearly marked so that customers know exactly what they’re going to pay when they get to the register. Similar practices, however, do not apply to the U.S. private healthcare industry, where little Here's a look at "the best healthcare system in the world." Fifty hospitals in the United States are charging uninsured consumers more than 10 times the actual cost of patient care, according to research published Monday. All but one of the facilities are .

The health care industry is a major market in which consumers are typically not able to comparison shop. A patient lying in a hospital bed, for example, has little choice in how much they spend on their care. Now, a new study examining hospital costs finds TAMPA — Researchers have compiled a list of the 50 hospitals in the United States with the highest markups over their actual costs, and 20 of those hospitals are in Florida — with five in the three-county Tampa Bay area. The researchers said a lack of Garrett Sebesta recovers from a shark bite at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. From left to right: Roy Rivera, Physical Therapist at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital; Garrett Sebesta; and Russell Sebesta The 50 hospitals in the United States with the highest markup of prices over their actual costs are charging out-of-network patients and the uninsured, as well as auto and workers’ compensation insurers, more than 10 times the costs allowed by Medicare .

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