Some hospitals charge up to 10 times as much as others for standard medical scans, according to the latest analysis of previously secret market rates.

Median prices for taking images of the brain, legs, abdomen and chest differed across hospitals by thousands of dollars in some cases, a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and Michigan State universities reported Tuesday in the journal Radiology.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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