The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a webinar Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. ET on updated hospital price transparency ...

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 ...

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

Sen. Julian Bradley and Rep. Robert Wittke said the bill is needed to ensure policies implemented by the Trump administration are followed.

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 ...

At HIMSS26, leaders from HL7 Da Vinci Project and Aetna will show how C-suite leaders – and all patients – can benefit from the interoperability spec, which is enabling process automation for more ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has flipped the script on health insurance subsidies. He recently proposed redirecting taxpayers' Affordable Care Act payments to patients themselves so they can purchase their ...

"The Great Healthcare Plan" aims to lower drug costs, reduce premiums, and enhance price transparency, with a focus on Most ...

The Senate Committee on Licensing, State and Federal Affairs heard arguments Wednesday at the Capitol surrounding a new health care bill.

"What major purchase does anyone in this room make without knowing the cost before you make the purchase? It is inconceivable to me that we do not know what something is going to cost of that ...