Congress is hopelessly divided over solutions to fix America’s broken health care system. Last month, competing health care reform bills from Senate Democrats and Republicans failed to garner the ...

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 ...

Quality in healthcare is defined by the likelihood of achieving desired outcomes, requiring safety, efficacy, and accessibility, as per NCCN guidelines. Value measures outcomes relative to costs, with ...

But Binder feels that opening up price transparency can and should be a gateway to better transparency about other parts of the healthcare system. "While we’re focused on quality and safety [at ...

It seems simple: Require hospitals and insurers to post their negotiated prices for most health care services and — bingo — competition follows, yielding lower costs for consumers. But nearly four ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday mandating price transparency in some health care costs, calling it "one of the biggest things that can happen to reducing costs in health ...

Michal Horný is an assistant professor of health policy and management in the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. It’s hard enough to be sick or need surgery or hospitalization.

ASHTABULA, Ohio -- It’s a happy new year for Ohio health care consumers, who will finally be able to shop for affordable medical services and avoid ridiculous hospital costs such as $1,300 facility ...

President Donald Trump has flipped the script on health insurance subsidies. He recently proposed redirecting taxpayers' Affordable Care Act payments to patients themselves so they can purchase their ...