Escalating levels of healthcare spending and price variation in the healthcare market have
driven government and insurer interest in price transparency tools that are intended to help …

Introduction As drug prices are viewed to be opaque, there have been increasing societal
demands on policy and decision makers to implement initiatives that promote drug price …

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Background The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently implemented
price transparency legislation. As total joint arthroplasty (TJA) procedures are widely used …

Methods: The hospital websites of the top 101 orthopaedic hospitals per the US News &
World Report 2020-2021 were explored to assess compliance with the price transparency …

Health care has become a $3.5 trillion economy in the United States as prices for medical
services have reached record-high levels. 1, 2 This spending is straining households, as in …

Medicine is the only business transaction in which consumers make important purchase
decisions without knowing how much they have to pay. Lack of price transparency in health …

Health care price transparency is gaining momentum as a tangible policy intervention that
can unleash market principles to increase competition, help begin to decrease US health …

Studies evaluating the cost and quality of healthcare services have produced inconsistent
results. We seek to determine if higher paid hospitals have higher quality outcomes …

Background Current federal regulation requires hospitals to report publicly negotiated prices
for surgical procedures to improve transparency and reduce costs. The purpose of this study …