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 ...

“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 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 ...

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 ...