2014’s Healthcare Price Transparency Report Card Reveals Few States Are Making It Easy and Fast for Consumers to See the Prices Charged by Hospitals, Physicians, and Medical Laboratories

Aug 20, 2014 | Coding, Billing, and Collections, Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice, Laboratory Pathology, Managed Care Contracts & Payer Reimbursement

One reason is that the healthcare price websites operated by most states are inadequate, ‘poorly designed or poorly functioning’ Efforts to encourage price transparency at hospitals and other providers are making little progress. That’s one conclusion to be made from the second annual Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws, that gave a failing grade to 45 states. This information is relevant because more consumers are now enrolled in high-deductible health plans. As a consequence,...
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