Hospital Prices Got a Lot More Transparent

Hospital Prices Got a Lot More Transparent
New rules put in place by the Trump administration to help consumers price shop for health care services could shake up the hospital business.felipe caparros/Shutterstock
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Hospitals face the new year with new requirements to post price information they have long sought to obscure: the actual prices negotiated with insurers and the discounts they offer their cash-paying customers.

The move is part of a larger push by the Trump administration to use price transparency to curtail prices and create better-informed consumers. Yet there is disagreement on whether it will do so.

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