For providers, the bill strengthens and expands existing transparency rules. The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule already requires hospitals to publicize standard charges and payer-specific ...

New York’s regional health insurers are struggling to comply with federal price transparency rules, new data shows, hindering patients’ ability to shop for affordable care. EmblemHealth, Healthfirst ...

Those that do comply do so minimally, while still burying pricing files in unusable formats that might as well be invisible to patients. Insurers negotiate blindly with hospitals that keep an upper ...

New federal transparency requirements are giving patients unprecedented leverage to dispute and negotiate medical bills. Hospitals and insurers must now publish standard charges and negotiated rates, ...