Rural hospital closures directly impact the health of rural Americans by reducing access to care. New research from the ...

Weeks later, she received the hospital’s bill: $61,314. Cook knew health care pricing is notoriously mysterious, but getting a bill more than 11 times what the hospital had estimated astonished her.

A new National Bureau of Economic Research analysis links hospital-physician consolidation to lower competition and higher ...

Within the 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed policy changes, released July 13, CMS reiterated its authority under the CY 2020 final rule to monitor and enforce hospital ...

“The chargemaster resides in every hospital information system, whether Cerner, Epic or MEDITECH,” says Mr. Barry. “It is a module standard in that purchase, but when it arrives it is an ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 15, 2025, issued the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment (OPPS) and Ambulatory ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Center on Healthcare examined how well hospital price transparency disclosures facilitate comparison of prices for services across hospitals.

The reported price for the procedure was closer to $700, she said. Schmotzer said she took a printout of the spreadsheet to the hospital and presented it during preadmission. She paid her $300 ...

Not every plan has a hospital in-network in every state, and for those that do, the median rate can vary by nearly a factor of 10; for example, the median state rate for Aetna ranges from less ...

A poll released in August found about 69% of surveyed Coloradans who needed hospital care attempted to find out what it would cost them in advance, but only about 43% succeeded.

A bill in the Washington Legislature to make hospital pricing more transparent for consumers is still in play, but its scope has narrowed during the legislative process. “I don’t think this ...