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 ...

Ohio’s new health care price transparency law, which goes into effect Thursday, April 3, will require hospitals to post “real dollar amounts” of their services so customers can make decisions based on ...

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 ...

In the stack of executive orders (EOs) issued post-inauguration, many will prove inconsequential because they were intended as political statements. However, there are several in the pile that signal ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...

The president signed an executive order in another push to make the prices of medical services more transparent. Efforts to do so in his first term were largely ignored. By Margot Sanger-Katz ...

With his groundbreaking executive order on health care price transparency, President Donald Trump paved the way to protecting American patients and employers from the inflationary costs of the ...

It's a holy grail of health care: forcing the industry to reveal prices negotiated between health plans and hospitals — information that had long been treated as a trade secret. And among the flurry ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. President Trump unveiled a wide-ranging executive order on Tuesday ...