WASHINGTON -- Health transparency rules have helped researchers gain more insight into hospital pricing practices, Ge Bai, PhD, CPA, said here Wednesday at an event sponsored by Georgetown ...

There came a time when just stepping into a car dealership felt a bit like walking into a high-stakes poker game: Everyone had to prepare themselves for a bluff or a hidden card up someone’s sleeve.

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 ...

Our nation’s $4.5 trillion healthcare system is not only expensive relative to those of its developed country peers, but its costs are notoriously opaque to the average consumer – that is, until after ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nearly a dozen Middle Tennessee hospitals have been found in violation of price transparency, according to one report from a patients’ rights group. Across the state, only ...

Many Massachusetts medical specialists do not offer consumers transparent price information, despite a state law requiring it, according to a Pioneer Institute survey. The Pioneer Institute surveyed ...

As a parent, I understand the anxiety that comes with not knowing what a medical visit will cost, combined with the urgency to make health decisions to benefit your family. It’s hard enough when your ...

Although hospitals are required by law to post their prices online, only about 36% of hospitals are fully complying. Congress and now even employers and unions are demanding that changes. Cynthia ...

Australia’s competition watchdog has put forward a series of measures for the country’s major grocers to publish more information on prices. In a 441-page report into Australia’s supermarket sector, ...

Since the price transparency laws have come into play. We looked at a hundred hospitals across the country, 10 in each state in 10 states, and we found that the prices varied by 10 times in the same ...