CAHP Press Release – ICYMI – Los Angeles Times: Leaked SoCal hospital records reveal huge, automated markups for healthcare
In a recent Los Angeles Times column, David Lazarus points out a disturbing practice among
hospitals in California and across the country to markup drug and treatment costs on patient bills that reach upwards
of 575% to 675%. These markups are so common, they are “automatically generated by the hospital’s software…Call it
institutionalized price gouging,” Lazarus says.
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