Inefficiencies plague our current healthcare system. Politicians are quick to blame these problems on the market and subsequently advocate for ever greater government control. But government programs, ...

The grocery store used to be a model of stability and predictability. Shoppers knew what their weekly staples would cost, giving them a sense of control over their household budgets. But today's ...

The success of price transparency initiatives requires that prices be defined using a common payment methodology. In this article, we explore how coding schemas and pricing approaches varied in five ...

Navigating the financial side of American healthcare has long been a major source of stress and confusion for patients and their families. To address this, the Associated Press reports that the Trump ...

This study examined the impact of price transparency and prosocial messaging on patient engagement of price-protected consumers in seeking value-based care. Objectives: To examine the effects of price ...

John Barkett, MBA, discusses how health care price transparency can affect both patient out-of-pocket costs and overall health care spending. In this interview, John Barkett, MBA, managing director in ...

Providers continually struggle to get the fair reimbursement they deserve from payers and often feel powerless to negotiate better rates. However, regulatory changes aimed at increasing price ...

The bewilderingly opaque nature of healthcare prices is making headlines again after President Donald Trump’s latest executive order, which aims to strengthen enforcement for the Centers for Medicare ...

An initial analysis from a commercial vendor of price transparency data found signs that the significant variation in prices for hospital services is converging, with some of the highest prices ...

2025 has been marked by price transparency buzz in the form of a number of legislative updates. In February, President Trump signed an executive order that indicated Washington was dedicated to moving ...

Rules exist to be followed, not ignored. Or at least, that’s what most people think. But in many cases, hospitals and insurers haven’t been following the rules—and the government has been letting them ...