The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule (the rule, hereafter), which requires hospitals to
post the payer-specific negotiated prices, discounted cash prices, and standard charges for …

Importance Breast reconstruction is costly, and negotiated commercial rates have been
hidden from public view. The Hospital Price Transparency Rule was enacted in 2021 to …

Hospitals must disclose their cash prices, commercial negotiated rates, and chargemaster
prices for seventy common, shoppable services under the hospital price transparency rule …

Healthcare price transparency is an effort to inform patient decision-making, but also to
decrease prices and their variation across healthcare systems for equivalent medical …

Most major insurers operate in both the commercial health insurance and Medicare
Advantage (MA) markets. We investigated the ratio of commercial-to-MA prices negotiated …

Importance Patients with urologic diseases often experience financial toxicity, defined as
high levels of financial burden and concern, after receiving care. The Price Transparency …

Importance The federal Hospital Price Transparency final rule, which became effective in
2021, requires hospitals to publicly disclose payer-specific prices for drugs. However, little is …

Self-pay patients are an understudied yet important and financially vulnerable population of
emergency department (ED) users. As ED facility fees may be a key cost driver in patient ED …

Importance Price transparency regulations aim to help patients make informed decisions
about medical care, but enforcing these rules is a policy challenge. There may be an …

Background: Surgical treatment of lymphedema has outpaced coding paradigms. In the
setting of ambiguity regarding coding for physiologic procedures [lymphovenous bypass …