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Price Transparency

95% of insurers are worried about meeting No Surprises Act requirements by deadline, study finds

(By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review) Healthcare providers and insurers must make changes to their processes and technology systems

(By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review) HCA Healthcare and Universal Health Services are among hundreds of hospitals that have

(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Eleven children’s hospitals and startup drugmaker Phlow have joined forces to create the Children’s

(By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review) Setting hospital prices for commercial payers could achieve greater savings than other strategies like

(By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review) Sixty percent of healthcare providers that have complied with CMS’ price transparency rule, which went

In late December, after several days of closed-door negotiations, congress passed a legislative package containing a mixture of Medicare policy

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) Hospitals face the new year with new requirements to post price information they

(By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review) A measure to end surprise medical bills for emergency and scheduled care was

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) In the U.S., fee-for-service medicine has long been cited as creating incentives for overuse of

(By Harris Meyer for Kaiser Health News) Health insurance companies will have to give their customers estimated out-of-pocket costs for