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ER bills are expensive. And secretive.

by Sean McHenry

Jan 7, 2019

In some hospitals, you could pay thousands of dollars just to sit in the waiting room.

"The costs are high — and they vary hugely from hospital to hospital," says Vox's Sarah Kliff. "Case in point: I found one hospital charging $1 for a squirt of an antibiotic ointment called bacitracin —and another charging $76."

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