Costs for exact same medical procedures vary dramatically in different hospitals, study says
Go to Toledo, Ohio, and the median cost of a simple blood test will run you a reasonable $18. But what if you live in Beaumont, Texas? You'll be ponying up $443 -- nearly 25 times as much.
In the Bay Area, which scores some of the highest prices regardless of service, the median cost of a C-section was $20,721. In Knoxville, Tennessee, the exact same C-section has a median cost of $4,556. Even going to different hospitals within the same metro area could vary. The lowest cost of a vaginal birth in the Boston-Cambridge region was $4,701 while the most expensive was $15,973 -- more than three times as much. In Tampa, Florida, a blood test can cost you $11 -- or $440.
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