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Surviving US healthcare. Plus: Prince Harry’s 'Spare'

Life and Art from FT Weekend

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A Pregnancy Test Is More Than 10 Times What It Should Cost

Northwestern sends a bill to the insurer, signa, and it has charges for like every single thing that happened that day in surgery. And then also all the charges by the individual doctors. The facility charges included things like like a pregnancy test, okay, for which they charged $141. That's more than 10 times what a pregnancy test actually costs.

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