"Medicare will require hospitals to post their standard prices online and make electronic medical records more readily available to patients, officials said Tuesday." - From the article. As someone who has handled medical payments, the rate differentiation is extremely wide between what the standard pricing is and what Medicare recipients and others pay. And the article is about all patients and standard rates, not just Medicare recipients. Medicare is just pushing for more transparency industry wide to help people make more informed decisions. It sounds like you and your wife have built and run an exceptional institution that is very morally and ethically centered, especially to insist on standardized pricing, but I know from experience that this isn't the norm in the United States. I'm glad that people like you are out there to do it.