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Some experts have already dismissed the tool as unlikely to actually help save costs, though. "Ask any hospital, lab or physician the price of anything and all you ever get back is a question: 'What insurance do you have?' " said Steven Weissman, an attorney and former hospital president. "Each patient's price depends on how much can be extracted."