Bill Of The Month

This crowdsourced investigation by Kaiser Health News and NPR dissects and explains your medical bills every month in order to shed light on U.S. health care prices and to help patients learn how to be more active in managing costs. Do you have a medical bill that you’d like us to see and scrutinize? Submit it here and tell us the story behind it.

Bill of the Month

$15,076 For Four Tiny Screws

A woman with foot pain was floored by the high cost of titanium screws used in her surgery.

Bill Of The Month

A Tale Of Two CT Scanners — One Richer, One Poorer

Why is the price of a CT scan 33 times higher in an hospital emergency room than in an outpatient imaging center just down the street?

Bill Of The Month

For Toenail Fungus, A $1,500 Prescription

How a prescription wiped out one patient's health reimbursement account.

Listen: Got A Sky-High Bill? Don’t Write The Check.

Have you gotten a medical bill that sounds way too expensive or is just downright confusing? Send it to us. KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal talks with NPR Morning Edition Host Steve Inskeep about the launch of “Bill Of The Month,” KHN and NPR’s new crowdsourced investigation.