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 ...
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 ...
National insurers are generally good at making accurate negotiated rate data available in compliance with federal price transparency rules, although there’s still room for improvement, according to a ...
In Oregon, the cost of a routine cesarean section can swing by thousands of dollars depending on where it’s performed. At OHSU Hospital, for example, the listed price for a C-section billed to a ...
Aetna and Cigna's TIC data generally matched or exceeded their reported provider counts, while UnitedHealthcare listed fewer providers. Physician and hospital outpatient data were more complete than ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in conjunction with the Departments of Treasury and Labor, published a proposed rule on December 23, 2025 to update the price transparency ...
The push to health care transparency continues.[1] During the first Trump administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), with the Department of Labor (“DOL”) and the ...
In December 2025, HHS, alongside the Labor and Treasury departments, proposed significant updates to healthcare price transparency rules. Comments for the proposed updates were due by March 2, 2026, ...
WASHINGTON , DC, UNITED STATES, April 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Simple Healthcare today announced the publication of a new article, From Transparency to Action ...
New research in the American Journal of Managed Care outlines how actionable price transparency data can reduce healthcare costs without limiting access WASHINGTON ...