State of Reform July 25, 2019
The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) released a new report this month on disclosure of health care pricing titled, The Secret of Health Care Prices: Why Transparency Is in the Public Interest. The authors of the article are executive staff and researchers from The Source on Healthcare Price and Competition, a project within the University Of California Hastings College of Law.
The report reviews All Payer Claims Databases (APCDs) already implemented in other states, to inform California’s implementation of their own statewide health care payments database. APDCs collect and release information on the cost of health care within the state.
This report recommends price transparency that details median prices by payer, provider, service, and zip code, as well as patient...
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