U.S. hospitals charge facility fees for colonoscopy procedures covered by private health insurance that are on average approximately 55% higher than facility fees billed by smaller clinics known as ambulatory surgical centers, ...
Dec 15, 2023
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For decades, U.S. hospitals have generally stonewalled patients who wanted to know ahead of time how much their care would cost. Now that's changing—but there's a vigorous debate over what hospitals are disclosing.
Mar 30, 2023
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Many of the nation's most prominent hospitals are blatantly violating federal mandates requiring transparency in pricing, and all too often patients are being kept in the dark about dramatic differences between publicly reported ...
May 26, 2022
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Health researchers have long argued that the key to reining in surging health care costs is to tackle the high prices of services, and one potential way to do this is to provide patients with price transparency.
Sep 20, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Secondary interpretations of diagnostic imaging examinations result in small but real patient financial burdens, according to a study published online July 19 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Aug 10, 2021
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Hospital price transparency is intended to help inform patients about the cost of services and procedures before they receive them. Since Jan. 1, 2021, hospitals in the U.S. have been required by The Centers for Medicare ...
Jun 4, 2021
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Among strategies to curb hospital prices among the commercially insured population in the U.S., direct price regulations such as setting rates are likely to achieve greater savings than other approaches like increasing competition ...
Feb 18, 2021
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Less than 5 percent of state drug pricing laws passed between 2015 and 2018 will provide new information about pricing within the pharmaceutical distribution system. The rest of the laws passed either do not focus on transparency ...
Oct 3, 2019
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What if you could shop for a magnetic resonance imaging scan like you would for someone to paint your house?
Jan 31, 2019
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Imagine there was a store where there were no prices on items, and you never knew what you'd pay until you'd picked out your purchases and were leaving the shop. You might be skeptical that the store would have any incentive ...
Jan 30, 2019
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