Getting Hodgkin's lymphoma was bad enough. Then Ohio resident Sean Recchi received his hospital bill: $83,900. You can blame his limited health insurance, but Steven Brill at Time looked behind the numbers to see why MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston charged so much. What Brill found: shocking markups that hiked prices by several hundred percent or more above cost. Queried about the markups, MD Anderson said their billing practices "are complex" and "similar to those of other major hospitals." Which is exactly what Brill found: "a uniquely American gold rush" of tax-exempt "nonprofit" hospitals across the US that are raking in huge bucks and handing administrators mega-salaries. Among his other findings: