{"id":25567,"date":"2026-02-11T07:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25567"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:56:47","slug":"hospitals-are-posting-prices-for-patients-its-mostly-industry-using-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25567","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals are posting prices for patients. It&#8217;s mostly industry using the data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Darius Tahir for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans think patients should be shopping for better health care prices. The party has long pushed to give patients money and let consumers do the work of reducing costs. After some GOP lawmakers closed out 2025 advocating to fund health savings accounts, President Donald Trump introduced his Great Healthcare Plan, which calls for, among other policies, requiring providers and insurers to post their prices &#8220;in their place of business.&#8221;  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/02\/10\/nx-s1-5704792\/health-care-price-transparency-data\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/02\/10\/nx-s1-5704792\/health-care-price-transparency-data\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Darius Tahir for NPR) Republicans think patients should be shopping for better health care prices. The party has long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1517,21,39],"tags":[385,238,462,214],"class_list":["post-25567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-data","category-health-care-finance","category-price-transparency","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-hospital-price-transparency","tag-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25568,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25567\/revisions\/25568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}