[zirkonit]

Cardiac valve procedure at Kaiser Foundation Hospital - Redwood City Medical Center - $458,254.00 cash price. Oh my.

I get it that it's an expensive procedure, but OH MY.

[huitzitziltzin]

Kaiser might be a weird outlier. IT is a very different kind of organization (vertically integrated - physicians/insurers/hospitals).

It might be that the price is that insane elsewhere, but Kaiser may not be the best way to judge.