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Julie ApplebyJuly 2, 2021
Many hospitals around the country, including Medstar Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C., have started sharing their prices online in compliance with a recent federal rule. (Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images)
A colonoscopy might cost you or your insurer a few hundred dollars or several thousand, depending on which hospital or insurer you use.
Long hidden, such price variations are supposed to be available in stark black and white under a Trump administration price transparency rule that took effect at the start of this year. It requires hospitals to post a range of actual prices everything from the rates they offer cash-paying customers to costs negotiated with insurers.
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