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Partnership v. Hasson, 33 So. 3d 148, 149 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010), the appellate court, in a motorist’s personal injury action, upheld the trial court’s order requiring a non-party hospital to produce information as to the amounts charged and discounted to different patients, as well as the internal cost structure for particular medical procedures.13
The defendant was challenging the reasonableness of the amount of medical expenses asserted by the plaintiff (and charged by the hospital) and sought to establish that the reasonable value of the medical expenses was much lower than the full price charged by the hospital. The trial court agreed that “the discovery of a hospital’s charges, and discounts to different classes of patients, and its internal cost structure was relevant information; what a health care provider accepts as payment from private non-litigation payors