Becker's Healthcare May 25, 2023
Payers’ price transparency files vary widely by size and number of billing codes, an analysis published in Health Affairs found.
In the report, published May 25, David Muhlestein, PhD, chief research and innovation officer at Health Management Associates, compared price transparency files for the most common networks used by Aetna, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare.
Mr. Muhlestein found Cigna and Humana had significantly larger file sizes than Aetna and UnitedHealthcare.
“It is worth noting that as of early 2023, both Cigna...