Healthcare price transparency is reshaping how patients and providers prepare for medical costs. With CMS mandates, advanced estimator tools, and informed prescription choices, the aim is to eliminate ...

A couple of years ago, the federal government passed a new law requiring hospitals to publish something that had long been out of public purview. Beginning in July 2022, hospitals were required to ...

On April 1, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that his agency would be “requiring hospital ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

A new fight over health price transparency is playing out in an unusual copyright lawsuit over a hospital billing manual. Why ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

Hospitals serving more disadvantaged patient populations lagged on complying with price transparency regulations, according to recently published research covering the first quarter of 2022 to the ...

Healthcare is the only industry in which consumers are completely unaware about the price of a service they are purchasing until after the fact, when the medical bills arrive. Patients, however, want ...

Louisiana hospitals are increasingly under fire for violating federal price transparency rules, with three facilities fined in the past five months as part of a renewed enforcement push by the Trump ...

Inefficiencies plague our current healthcare system. Politicians are quick to blame these problems on the market and subsequently advocate for ever greater government control. But government programs, ...

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Florida Attorney General James Ulthmeier has taken action against several hospital systems in his state, including subpoenas, to ensure they are complying with President Donald Trump’s executive order ...