Price transparency advocates say a recent health insurance proposal from the Trump administration will improve insights into ...

Transparency is certainly not a panacea for solving health care cost growth, and may turn out to have a limited effect on its own. But more transparency is an important step for facilitating many new ...

Trump has made price transparency a priority since his first term in office, when he introduced regulations in 2019 that required hospitals to publicly disclose prices reflecting what patients and ...

Providers continually struggle to get the fair reimbursement they deserve from payers and often feel powerless to negotiate better rates. However, regulatory changes aimed at increasing price ...

2025 has been marked by price transparency buzz in the form of a number of legislative updates. In February, President Trump signed an executive order that indicated Washington was dedicated to moving ...

CMS updated its hospital price transparency guidance May 22, requiring hospitals to post the actual prices of items and services, not estimates. The update comes after President Donald Trump issued an ...

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 ...

Michal Horný is an assistant professor of health policy and management in the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. It’s hard enough to be sick or need surgery or hospitalization.

Hospital price transparency compliance enforcement is set to rise. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enacted Hospital Price Transparency Rules in 2021, yet price transparency is ...

On 3 July, the CMA issued its draft guidance on the price transparency provisions in the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCCA), and launched a consultation on this draft guidance ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dr. Heather Falvo’s attempt to use Colorado’s hospital price transparency law succeeded in cutting her medical bill in half. Others may not be so lucky, ...

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 ...