Dr. Vivian Lee, chief executive at the University of Utah Health Care, first questioned how and why are hospital costs excessively expensive. They believe that if they find the source of the hospitals’ costs, they will then cut the costs for the consumer. The main culprit of increasing hospital costs is inflation; each year the cost of health care increases “a little less than 2 percent” a year. To try to defeat the problem, they developed a computer software designed to calculate hospital costs. The program tracks costs, and it has allowed the hospital to cut away some expenses that were not essential to the treatment of its patients. After other doctors discovered Dr. Lee’s findings, they began to call more elaborate expenses into
