John Barkett, MBA, discusses recent regulatory proposals to make massive health plan price files more usable. Price ...

In December 2025, HHS, alongside the Labor and Treasury departments, proposed significant updates to healthcare price transparency rules. Comments for the proposed updates were due by March 2, 2026, ...

Interviewing patients for the report revealed how they were routinely subjected to hidden and varying prices for hospital ...

A new federal legislation requires providers to identify where care occurred, improving billing transparency and reducing ...

Healthcare is one of the only markets where consumers buy services without seeing the price ahead of time. Patients are routinely expected to agree to tests, scans, and procedures with no idea of the ...

Price variation does not just occur across markets and services; it also emerges between networks and providers.

(The Center Square) - A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday called on pharmaceutical companies to provide increased price transparency and lower costs for drugs. Elected leaders on the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

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AI agent called 3,000 Irish pubs to expose Guinness price gouging, revealing €6.01 average with some charging €11 per pint ...