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    Consumer Confidential: When a hospital sling costs 900% more than Amazon's price, something is very wrong

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Sep 16, 2019 4 minutes

    Cathy Birker-Hake tripped over a hose in her Valley Village backyard not long ago, dislocated her shoulder and made a beeline for the emergency room.

    "It was one of those really stupid accidents," she told me, still embarrassed to have needed urgent medical care for such a trivial mishap.

    Birker-Hake, 63, said her shoulder was put back in place at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank and she was given a sling to keep her arm immobile while it healed.

    The hospital charged $6,223 for two ER visits. Birker-Hake said her insurer, Oscar Health, paid nearly $4,400 of that amount.

    Then, a few weeks ago, a

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