Image WHEN CAITLIN WELLS SALERNO AND JON SALERNO’S FIRST SON, HANK, WAS BORN, HIS DELIVERY COST THE FAMILY ONLY $30. GUS’ BILL CAME IN AT MORE THAN $16,000. THE FAMILY WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ABOUT $3,600 OF IT./RAE ELLEN BICHELL/KHN How Billing Turns A Routine Birth Into A High-Cost Emergency Over the past 20 years, hospitals and doctors have learned there’s great profit in upcoding visits. Oct 28, 2021 Subscribe to delivery