Costs vary across Australia's hospitals: report

 30-Apr-15, The Courier Mail 

Surgical procedures could cost twice as much depending on the public hospital you attend.

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That is the finding of a new report by the independent agency monitoring the health system after it studied costs at more than 80 of the nation's largest public hospitals.

The National Health Performance Authority discovered procedures in some hospitals cost almost twice as much as the exact same procedure in another comparable hospital. For example, a patient needing their appendix removed could be charged either $4600 or $10,000 depending on which hospital they attended. Victoria topped the nation with the most low-cost hospitals, while the ACT had two of the most expensive hospitals.

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