Hospitals often bill 5x-10x actual costs to make up for the "discounts" that insurance companies force upon them. If you're uninsured and get hit by a huge bill, you need to negotiate with the hospital to bring the amount down. Doubly so, because hospitals have lax tracking of costs, and no one really knows how much your visit really cost. More about this from an actual MD:
http://truecostofhealthcare.org/hospital_billing
I'd be more for using informed consent laws to argue that you would not have proceeded with treatment had you known how much it cost, or the costs related to failure of procedure.
Our medical system is the worst of capitalism, and the worst of socialism. Tell me again: Where are the prices?
