David Muhlestein, PhD, breaks down ghost rates, data gaps, and why stronger oversight is needed to make Transparency in ...

Transparency is certainly not a panacea for solving health care cost growth, and may turn out to have a limited effect on its own. But more transparency is an important step for facilitating many new ...

Data is paramount in healthcare, but unfortunately, the industry has a long way to go regarding transparency in its usage. Just how stark is this lack of transparency? Consider this finding from a ...

Aetna and Cigna's TIC data generally matched or exceeded their reported provider counts, while UnitedHealthcare listed fewer providers. Physician and hospital outpatient data were more complete than ...

At HIMSS26, leaders from HL7 Da Vinci Project and Aetna will show how C-suite leaders – and all patients – can benefit from the interoperability spec, which is enabling process automation for more ...

Price transparency advocates say a recent health insurance proposal from the Trump administration will improve insights into ...

Trump has made price transparency a priority since his first term in office, when he introduced regulations in 2019 that required hospitals to publicly disclose prices reflecting what patients and ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In Episode 13 of the “Achieving Health” podcast from ...

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 ...

The smooth and efficient functioning of operating rooms (ORs) is critical to patient care, patient flow and hospital operations and revenue. However, outdated communication systems, fragmented ...

Healthcare is the only industry in which consumers are completely unaware about the price of a service they are purchasing until after the fact, when the medical bills arrive. Patients, however, want ...

President Donald Trump unveiled a multipart proposal on Thursday aimed at lowering prescription drug prices and reducing ...