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$160,000 for a single adoption in Utah? Report sheds light on ‘outrageous’ costs

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Department of Health. But new numbers from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services show the most expensive adoption in the Beehive state during the last fiscal year cost far more than that: about $160,000.

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