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A $40 Fee to Hold Your Baby?

Here is a link to a story about how one hospital charged a woman nearly $40 to hold her baby after it was delivered.

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13160624/medical-bills-birth-delivery

And here is a link to Steven Brill’s article, “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us” from TIME magazine.  This article, “The $21,000 Heartburn Bill,” discusses other outrageous charges.

http://www.uta.edu/faculty/story/2311/Misc/2013,2,26,MedicalCostsDemandAndGreed.pdf

These types of absurd charges are driving healthcare costs higher, especially for self-insured employers who are not auditing every claim.

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