> I started my project focused on one specific charge: the facility fee. I found this charge for walking through an emergency room’s doors could be as low as $5

> I started my project focused on one specific charge: the facility fee. I found this charge for walking through an emergency room’s doors could be as low as $533 or well over $3,000, depending on which hospital a patient visited and how severe her case was. I also learned that the price of this charge had skyrocketed in recent years, increasing much faster than other medical prices for no clear reason. Is this why my local hospitals are advertising their ER wait times? The arbitrary profit from arbitrary "in the door" fees?