Despite Trump- and Biden-era rules, health care price data stay spotty—used mostly by insurers and providers, not patients.

American families have long made the commonsense argument that we must know the price of health care before we receive it.

Study: fuller hospital price disclosure tied to up to 8.2% lower cancer prices in markets with broad compliance.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gov. Kevin Stitt speaks about a new hospital price transparency law at a news conference at the Capitol on Oct. 28, 2025. Stitt is ...

Cancer treatment costs declined as much as 8.2% in cities where most hospitals published complete pricing data for oncology services, new research shows, indicating that federal price transparency ...

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 ...

For providers, the bill strengthens and expands existing transparency rules. The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule already requires hospitals to publicize standard charges and payer-specific ...

Price transparency laws for healthcare organizations were first implemented in 2021 and have progressively strengthened since, but have they helped patients? The laws were introduced during President ...

It’s no secret that the price transparency movement has picked up speed and become increasingly complicated for all stakeholders. Though over 30 states have passed or proposed legislation to increase ...

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. House Energy and Commerce ...

A new analysis of price transparency data reveals massive and often irrational variations in payer rates, arming providers with powerful new leverage for contract negotiations. Newly available health ...

Of the 28 hospitals CMS has fined for alleged price transparency violations, only two have bed counts above 550, while 10 have 30 or fewer beds. CMS bases its civil monetary penalties on hospital bed ...