Figuring out the cost of a hip replacement or childbirth in advance is notoriously tricky. But on January 1, the federal government issued a mandate for hospitals across the country to publish millions of previously secret prices for medical care. Will those price lists help? Reporters Brian Grimmett and Celia Llopis-Jepsen of the Kansas News Service explain.
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