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, ...

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 ...

Hospital price transparency compliance enforcement is set to rise. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enacted Hospital Price Transparency Rules in 2021, yet price transparency is ...

President Trump issued an executive order in February, titled “Empowering Patients Through Radical Price Transparency,” that promises to dramatically lower prices using the free market. Trump says his ...

The Trump administration is beginning to lay out its regulatory (and deregulatory) priorities, and on February 25, 2025, the administration spotlighted one of those priorities in an executive order on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just 21.1% of hospitals are in full compliance with federal price transparency rules, according to Patient Rights Advocate. Compliance has slipped since July 2023. The first Trump administration ...

Price transparency adherence data has been a mixed bag lately, so HealthLeaders reached out to an expert to understand why and figure out how revenue cycle leaders can help. An October price ...

Letting people know how much it will cost to go to the hospital has been a prime goal of everyone who wants to use market forces to drive down the cost of care. The idea is that if patients can shop ...

President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans want market forces to drive down the cost of health care. During the election, Trump promised he'd deliver on a step to help get there. "Require price ...

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