Charges for some of the most common inpatient procedures surged at hospitals across the country in 2012 from a year earlier, some at more than four times the national rate of inflation, according to data released by Medicare officials on Monday.
Editor’s Note: Hospital charge master rates are whatever a hospital wants them to be. These rates have nothing to do with costs, or what patients actually pay. In fact, hospitals say that charge master rates are not really important – see Hospitals Dismiss Significance Of Chargemaster Prices?
