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 ...

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 ...

CMS ramped up enforcement of hospital price transparency rules in 2025, issuing fines to 10 hospitals after imposing three in 2024. Here are seven things to know about hospital price transparency ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federal price transparency rules requiring hospitals to disclose their negotiated medical care prices were implemented in 2021, but the reality has fallen short of expectations for Oregon patients.

Blue Shield of California is teaming up with Gemini Health to roll out a new member tool that offers greater transparency at the pharmacy counter. The tool, called Price Check My Rx, will be available ...

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 ...

This study examined the impact of price transparency and prosocial messaging on patient engagement of price-protected consumers in seeking value-based care. Objectives: To examine the effects of price ...

Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation aiming to boost healthcare price transparency, and the penalties for persistent noncompliance outlined in the bill could significantly impact hospitals’ ...

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 ...