The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is cracking down on enforcing the price transparency rule through fines and has released the names of four hospitals that have not complied and have ...

Trump pitches healthcare policy to codify drug pricing deals, expand price transparency, and shift ACA subsidies to direct payments for Americans.

The government shutdown fight brought America’s outrageous health care costs back to the top of the news cycle. One of the fastest, most straightforward steps Washington can take to lower them ...

If a Colorado hospital attempts to collect medical debt from patients but has not been complying with CMS' price transparency rule, the facility would face financial penalties. A bill seeking to ...

In December 2017, a survey of more than 500 likely voters revealed patients’ desire to better understand their healthcare costs ahead of time. The Foundation of Government Accountability found that 82 ...

Although hospitals see value in price transparency, a majority are concerned about significant challenges around deployment of CMS' price transparency regulation, according to a KLAS survey of 66 ...

Transparency is certainly not a panacea for solving health care cost growth, and may turn out to have a limited effect on its own. But more transparency is an important step for facilitating many new ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final guidance for the third cycle of the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program on Tuesday, introducing major ...

Aetna and Cigna's TIC data generally matched or exceeded their reported provider counts, while UnitedHealthcare listed fewer providers. Physician and hospital outpatient data were more complete than ...

CALLING ON CONGRESS TO LOWER HEALTHCARE COSTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump called on Congress to enact the Great Healthcare Plan, a comprehensive plan to lower drug prices, lower insurance ...

Healthcare is the only industry in which consumers are completely unaware about the price of a service they are purchasing until after the fact, when the medical bills arrive. Patients, however, want ...