A hospital hiked the price of their healthy baby’s birth by calling it an ’emergency’

When Caitlin Wells Salerno and Jon Salerno

“Obstetrical emergency departments” are a new aspect of some hospitals that can inflate medical bills for even the easiest, healthiest births. Just ask baby Gus’s parents about their $2,755 ER charge.

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