It's unclear how accurate this is. I searched my area for a random item (something respiratory) and there was one hospital that was $10k and another that was $

It's unclear how accurate this is. I searched my area for a random item (something respiratory) and there was one hospital that was $10k and another that was $30k. The $30k hospital probably has inflated prices, but not by 3x – it's also the hospital that takes harder cases. It's the hospital other hospitals send patients to. When we looked at hospitals for the birth of our daughter we looked at C-section rates. Almost all hospitals were the same, there was one good hospital, and then there was this hospital which had twice the C-sections of any other. But it's the hospital that gets the hard cases, a friend later delivered there (I think by C-section) after barely avoiding premature labor from 20 weeks to 35 weeks. Because people go there when they have medical challenges they have a high C-section rate, and generally high rates for everything.