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Most hospitals and payers have publicly posted their pricing information, but experts think that data will remain mostly useless for consumers for at least another five years. Now that the data is available, healthcare software companies must step in and build tools that are personalized and easy to use. That way, consumers can eventually use price transparency data to shop for care.

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“How much is the ice cream?” A simple enough question, featured on a new TV and online advertisement, posed by a man who just wants something cold. A woman behind

By JULIE APPLEBYKaiser Health News“How much is the ice cream?”A simple enough question, featured on a new TV and online advertisement,

The proposed rule is designed to make it easier for consumers to learn in advance exactly what they might owe for nonemergency hospital care.

The proposed rule is designed to make it easier for consumers to learn in advance exactly what they might owe for nonemergency hospital care.

“How much is the ice cream?” A simple enough question, featured on a new TV and online advertisement , posed by a man who just wants something cold. A woman behind the counter …

A Biden administration proposal would help standardize the data on prices that hospitals provide to patients, increase its usefulness to consumers, and boost enforcement. Previous rules gave hospitals too many loopholes.

A proposal by the Biden administration aims to standardize hospital care data, increase its usefulness for consumers, and boost enforcement.

The Biden administration wants hospitals to do more to make their prices understandable, so that consumers know in advance what a health care service will cost them.