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A San Diego toddler spent two days in a pediatric intensive care unit after a rattlesnake bit his hand in his backyard.
The lifesaving antivenom the 2-year-old needed accounted for more than two-thirds of the total cost — $ 213,000 .
One explanation is the markup hospitals add to balance overhead costs and make money.
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