Perkins is the director of Health Policy Strategy at the Center for Advancing Health Policy through Research (CAHPR) at the Brown University School of Public Health. Whaley is the associate director ...

Letting patients see hospital prices can help, but it will not fix the high cost of health care by itself. That's what ...

The basic lack of transparency around health care costs has long contributed to wasteful spending and inefficient care delivery. Wide price variations in medical services – with no rationale or true ...

(The Center Square) - Taxpayer advocates are applauding the Trump administration over its efforts calling for medical price transparency in federal employee health-care plans while health-care ...

John Barkett, MBA, discusses how health care price transparency can affect both patient out-of-pocket costs and overall health care spending. In this interview, John Barkett, MBA, managing director in ...

President Trump issued an executive order in February, titled “Empowering Patients Through Radical Price Transparency,” that promises to dramatically lower prices using the free market. Trump says his ...

The Affordable Care Act will drive up cost and shift more responsibility to the consumer. Two-thirds of all employers offer a consumer-driven health plan and/or high deductible health plan to control ...

the Trump administration issued regulations requiring hospitals and insurers to disclose hitherto hidden information on the prices they negotiate with one another. The proposed Transparency in ...

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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Having more transparent prices for prescription drugs and healthcare services may facilitate ...

Employee compensation has historically been shrouded in secrecy, with employers rarely disclosing earnings for job openings until after offering the job to a candidate. This practice frequently causes ...