As the new Trump administration considers ways to make high-quality, affordable healthcare more widely available, a renewed focus on price transparency deserves a spot on the top of the list.
Time to Bring Hospital Pricing Out the Shadows, It’s Long Overdue
Just one in five hospitals is complying with federal price-transparency rules today, according to a new report from the group Patient Rights Advocate.
Put differently, hospitals are keeping the prices of their services secret in violation of the law. The healthcare sector — and more importantly, patients — are worse off for it.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
Hospital Pricing In the Shadows Never Acceptable
Sally C. Pipes
As the new Trump administration considers ways to make high-quality, affordable healthcare more widely available, a renewed focus on price transparency deserves a spot on the top of the list.
Time to Bring Hospital Pricing Out the Shadows, It’s Long Overdue
Just one in five hospitals is complying with federal price-transparency rules today, according to a new report from the group Patient Rights Advocate.
Put differently, hospitals are keeping the prices of their services secret in violation of the law. The healthcare sector — and more importantly, patients — are worse off for it.
Read the entire op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.