To get paid, hospitals get creative
An Arm and a Leg
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Why are ER bills so crazy? With Sarah Kliff of Vox.com. (Season One, episode 7)
Emergency rooms often bill you a “cover charge” just for walking in the door, and it can be thousands of dollars. That’s in addition to the huge markup on everything that happens there: seven bucks for a band-aid. Twenty dollars for a couple of pills.
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