Hospitals lift curtain on prices, revealing giant swings in pricing by procedure
Local hospital released this as an Excel spreadsheet (Chargemaster).<p>They have a column called &quot;Uninsured cash price.&quot; These prices are &lt;25% of the insurance &quot;discount&quot; prices, but the really amusing thing is that this column was set to 0 size so that when you download the Excel sheet you have to know to auto re-size all the columns, or you cannot see it.<p>And, no, I don&#x27;t think this was by accident as they have updated this Excel spreadsheet several times and only that one column is always set to 0 size.