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2 hospitals, same procedure and a whole different price tag

[ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH] The average sticker price to get a pacemaker at Des Peres Hospital is $74,953. About eight miles away, at St. Lukeโ€™s Hospital, itโ€™s only $31,530. That discrepancy between how two St. Louis-area hospitals price their services is echoed across Missouri and the United States in new data released Wednesday by the federal government. The […]

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