Kaiser Health News 12/9/2012

“When I couldn’t get through to Newton-Wellesley, I tried Mass General, which is what we usually hear is the most expensive and best hospital in the country to go to. They were $5,315. That’s for an uninsured patient. For one MRI.

But they couldn’t tell me what my rate was going to be as an insured patient. They said they didn’t have that information. So I hit another wall with another hospital.”