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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will reinstate and strengthen price transparency in the healthcare industry. “You’re not allowed to even talk about it when you go into a ...

Letting people know how much it will cost to go to the hospital has been a prime goal of everyone who wants to use market forces to drive down the cost of care. The idea is that if patients can shop ...

Costs can vary ninefold [3] across state lines and about threefold within the same state. That means you could pay nine times ...