Medical costs across the U.S...

Medical costs across the U.S...  Now here is a fascinating visualization of data on the cost of over 100 Medicare procedures.  I think of myself as being reasonably well-informed about the U.S. health care system, but the degree of variability in these costs was a big surprise to me.  I'm not surprised that where I live now (near San Diego) has some of the highest costs in the country – but I was very surprised to see that some procedures cost just 15% as much in the area we're most likely to move to (northern Utah)!  Where my mom lives (near Charlottesville, VA), there's a huge difference (over 2:1) in the same town, with the Jefferson Hospital being far cheaper than the nearby UVA Medical Center – but even the most expensive there were half of San Diego's.