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Have you noticed that at some nonprofit hospitals overprice the cost of some things such as CT scans, X-rays, and diabetes test strips? As stated in the main article in the TIME magazine issued on March 4, 2013, this problem may let those hospitals rob a lot of money from you. For example, a patient was charged $333.00 for a chest scan. Medicare makes you pay $23.83. Another patient was charged $24.00 for a 500-mg tablet of niacin. Drugstores sell the same thing at $20.00—for a pack of 400 of them. Sometimes, they even charge you for ridiculous things such as the reusable gown the patient uses and the blanket covering him or her, or the make you take more of a thing than needed (a patient was charged $31.00 for using the gown and $32.00 for the blanket). You even need to pay to mark a place using a pen (the same patient paid $3.00 for it). If any of you out there reading this know the answer to this, or would like to discuss about this, please comment! 
The magazine issue is in the link: TIME volume 181 no. 8

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