Hospital Bills are, for the most part, works of complete fiction. Inflating the charge on every service a hospital provides has two major consequences:
a. It gives an unrealistic (inflated) impression of how much health care really costs.
b. It further allows hospitals and insurance companies to abuse people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LbT785gfc8&feature=g-crec–
Source: www.truecostofhealthcare.org