Health Affairs April 15, 2024
Editors’ 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 2024. Readers are encouraged to review the Call for Submissions for this series. We are grateful to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work.
Health care prices in the United States have long been shrouded in mystery. Until recently, the prices negotiated between hospitals and insurers were treated as confidential, and consumers had no idea how much they would end up getting charged for a service until they received their...