Many hospitals don't tell patients how much a procedure will cost until after it’s completed

Hospitals often don’t tell you how much a procedure will cost until after it’s completed, when they submit a bill to insurance.

A Catholic “health sharing” ministry that functions as a co-op-like alternative to traditional health insurance plans wrote to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , the Secretary of Health and Human Services , and Elon Musk .

The group said 92% of people support efforts by the federal government to require hospitals to provide real, actual prices not estimates.