Hospitals Can’t Keep Hiding Their Prices from Patients

It can be scary to go to the hospital when you are sick or injured, but it can be even more terrifying to get the bill.

Many Americans have no way of knowing how much a hospital will charge them for a routine medical procedure until weeks later when the bill arrives in the mail. This doesn’t happen anywhere else. If I wanted to know the exact price of every mayonnaise at the grocery store, I could pull up the website and tell you in two minutes.