Every hospital should make their 'chargemaster' files publicly available (upon request and online).
This petition is in response to Time Magazine's cover story 'Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us' by Steven Brill.
You can read the article here: http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-...
Hospital patients are being charged exorbitant and inflated costs without any transparency or consistency. The first step in addressing this issue is by ensuring that these files are publicly available.
60% of bankruptcies are due to medical debt. This statistic includes the insured. Please sign this petition so that we can continue to look into how hospitals bill their patients.