Hospitals don't even know how much somethings costs. They just start billing for this that and the other until their bottom line looks decent. This is likely an

Hospitals don't even know how much somethings costs. They just start billing for this that and the other until their bottom line looks decent. This is likely an artifact of our current insurance system where the customer is the insurance company, not the actual patient, and the insurance company can profit at a fixed percentage of costs. So they're fine with spending as much as possible.