Health Affairs March 27, 2024
Jonathan Wolfson, Josh Archambault, Christopher M. Whaley, Cynthia Fisher, Ge Bai

Editor’s Note

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider prices in the private-sector markets and their contribution to overall spending therein. Additional articles will be published throughout 2023. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.

Since January 1, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services has required U.S. hospitals to disclose their charges, negotiated prices, and discounted cash prices for all services in machine-readable files. They must also post prices for the 300 most common shoppable services, including discounted cash...

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Topics: CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Pricing / Spending, Provider, States
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