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

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

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The prices that employers and insurers in central Texas pay for an ordinary in-hospital birth can range from $2,308 to $20,384, depending on what the payers have negotiated, according to Texas ...

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.

The proposed bill prohibits a hospital or multi-hospital system from collecting facility fees at outpatient physician facilities it acquires, in connection with any health care services or items ...

Health care price transparency is one of the few bipartisan issues in Washington, D.C. But much of the information is not helpful to patients, and there's no evidence that it's lowering costs.