Importance Trauma centers must be readily equipped to handle a variety of life-threatening
injuries and consequently may charge a fee for the activation of their trauma team. Regional …

Importance Price transparency regulations aim to help patients make informed decisions
about medical care, but enforcing these rules is a policy challenge. There may be an …

Importance US hospitals are required to publicly post their prices for specified shoppable
services online. However, the extent to which a hospital's prices posted online correlate with …

Objective To quantify the price that private payers pay hospitals for head and neck
squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) treatments and identify hospital‐level factors associated …

Methods: Using a nationally representative random sample of 470 hospitals, we assessed
compliance with both parts of the hospital transparency rule (publishing a machine-readable …

Objective To assess trends in hospital price disclosures after the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) Final Rule went into effect. Data Sources and Study Setting The …

METHODS: In this cross-sectional economic evaluation, we queried publicly available price
transparency websites of 332 “high-performing” spine centers, as defined by the US News …

Introduction: Rural patients lack access to urological services, and high local prices may
dissuade underinsured patients from surgery. We sought to describe commercially insured …