The price paid for long-term solar power purchase agreement (PPA) contracts in 2015 fell below 50 dollars per megawatt-hour (or 5 cents per kilowatt-hour) in 4 of the 5 regions analyzed.
Only in California hospitals was the difference between complicated and uncomplicated delivery charges greater than $6,000 for vaginal births and $10,000 for cesarean births. The highest proportionally in Rhode Island.
In San Francisco, the most expensive of these northern counties, hospitals get $7,349 per patient per day on average. In Los Angeles County the figure is $4,389, and in San Bernardino County, it's $3,931 â the lowest of the southern six.Northern California hospitals say their prices are driven up by significantly higher costs for labor, supplies and other necessities.n Los Angeles County the figure is $4,389, and in San Bernardino County, it's $3,931 â the lowest of the southern six. Northern California hospitals say their prices are driven up by significantly higher costs for labor, supplies and other necessities.