American College of Physicians: The benefits of increased healthcare transparency hinge on reliable and valid information
Markets cannot work when consumers and patients have almost no information about the prices they pay for health care.
More than one-third of Medicare patients who underwent a prostatectomy, and 90% who had elective insertion of a coronary stent, said their physicians gave them no advance information about more conservative options
Surgical Patients Not Getting Information on Alternatives
About $36 billion could be shaved off the nation’s healthcare tab each year if the cost for 300 common procedures covered under employer-based insurance plans were reduced to their median prices, according to research from Thomson Reuters Healthcare.
HHS Unveils Requirements For Consumer Insurance Labels
To an economist it is astonishing that Americans have been content for so long to allow an economic sector that has absorbed an increasing portion of their incomes to operate without any meaningful price transparency
While a Florida state House committee approved legislation that would expand the state’s requirement that certain providers post the out-of-pocket prices of common health care services, a state Senate committee shot down a similar measure
CMS Rule Would Make Drug, Device Makers’ Payments to Docs Transparent
Quashing Access to Data, Feds Muddle Commitment to Transparency
In a competitive stampede toward transparency in health insurance premiums, seven more large carriers have dropped their objections to the public disclosure of their filings
Payment transparency or lack thereof, opens hospitals up to a boatload of financial risk as the payment environment shifts.
Wake up and smell the coffee. This is the dawning of the age of transparency in hospital mortality.
The benefits of increased healthcare transparency hinge on reliable and valid information—specifically in the areas of price and clinical performance
Publishing the cost and quality data has had a far-reaching impact – it gave hospitals with low quality ratings or high costs objective feedback for improving their performance
Ingenix, a leading health information, technology, consulting and services company, announced today that it has expanded its health outcomes measurement capabilities with the acquisition of QualityMetric Incorporated
Market research shows that the sick are relying more on the recommendations of fellow patients, and less on the reputations of companies and endorsers
An analysis written in The NEJM suggests that much of the Dartmouth Atlas is flawed and that it should not be used to compare the relative efficiency of hospitals
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