Editorial: Price transparency's day of reckoning

As more and more programs offer bad care insurance (such as "devastating scope of coverage"), "CMS Actuary predicts that compensation will be reduced by 13 million people under the Republic Abolition Act" ( Modern Healthcare.com, 13th June). ), It is a bit easier to say that a missing coverage number is illegal

More than 30 state parliamentes are proposing to formulate laws to promote price transparency or are under development and most of them focus on publicizing the average price or median of hospital services I am counting on you. Total billing database New Hampshire publishes information on total expenses and self-burden costs. In California, it is necessary to present cost estimates of the most common 25 outpatients to the hospital. The provincial health planning and development department also opened the "Comparison of general surgery and cost" website. County and city will conduct a search. Under the pending legislation, California hospitals are required to publicly disclose all expenses of certain procedures, including the costs of doctors and laboratories

Price transparency In the past 10 years, the transparency and disclosure of medical expenses has become a topic in the Legislature as a strategy for managing medical expenses. The provincial, federal, and private sectors set out the requirements to clarify the cost of medical services, compare cost, quality, and patient satisfaction, and started the program 7. Program fee to see more transparency and meet people who want to compare prices. By 2013, you can compare the rates of 100 domestic most common hospitalization services and 30 general outpatient services using the Medicare and Medicaid Service Center database. It covers 3,300 hospitals with pricing data exceeding 170,000, including the "display price" of the invoice submitted first and the actual amount paid by National Health Insurance.