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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CMS will delay enforcement of the insurance price transparency rule by six months, according to recent guidance from the agency. While the Transparency in Coverage final rule is set to take effect Jan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those that do comply do so minimally, while still burying pricing files in unusable formats that might as well be invisible to patients. Insurers negotiate blindly with hospitals that keep an upper ...

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 ...

Hospitals across Rhode Island are required by federal and state law to post their medical pricing data, including the negotiated prices for procedures by insurer, to their websites in a ...

What is known is that PBM companies, in general, have higher profit margins than drug manufacturers. | Opinion ...