Medicare will require hospitals to post their standard prices online

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that Medicare will require hospitals to post their standard prices online and make electronic medical records more readily available to patients. The new requirement for online prices reflects the administrations’ ongoing efforts to encourage patients to become better-educated decision makers in their own care. Read article here…

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