💰 Financial Record

This document is a reprint of a New York Times article by Nina Bernstein titled 'How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater,' bearing the Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019423. The article analyzes the inflated costs of IV saline bags in the US healthcare system, using a May 2012 food poisoning outbreak in upstate New York as a case study to highlight markups of 100 to 1,000 times the manufacturing cost. It identifies major manufacturers like Baxter International and Hospira and contrasts US pricing structures with those in France.