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 ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s commitment to healthcare price transparency has been met by praise from advocacy groups, with the ...

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 ...

A new analysis of price transparency data reveals massive and often irrational variations in payer rates, arming providers with powerful new leverage for contract negotiations. Newly available health ...

The Trump administration is proposing updates to price transparency requirements for payers in a move regulators say will make the information more accurate and accessible. The proposed Transparency ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the legislative landscape around price transparency — but despite a lot of noise, the results have been mixed. From federal hospital transparency rules to ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, PatientRightsAdvocate.org (PRA), released a new Interim Semi-Annual Report exposing hospitals that are leaving consumers without the fairness and ...