Hospital prices for the same procedures vary by up to 8 times
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Prices for the same procedure can vary wildly between hospitals, or even between payer types at the same hospital, a new analysis found.
C-section prices across Sutter Health s 24 hospitals ranged from $7,634 to $70,553 a report from the Health Care Cost Institute revealed. At Novato Community Hospital, commercial prices ranged more than five-fold for an upper gastrointestinal biopsy with an endoscope or by $32,821 for a C-section delivery. Still, the minimum C-section price at Sutter Coast Hospital was higher than most other commercial C-section prices at most hospitals, researchers noted.