2014 Advocacy Issue Paper
Achieving Price Transparency for Consumers: A Toolkit for Hospitals (July 2014)
Price Transparency Efforts Accelerate: What Hospitals and Other Stakeholders Are Doing to Support Consumers, TrendWatch (July 2014)
Price Transparency
Hospitals and health systems are committed to empowering patients and their families with all the information they need to live their healthiest lives. This includes ensuring they have access to accurate and timely price information when seeking care. Hospitals and health systems have made important progress in adopting federal price transparency requirements that require they both publicly post machine-readable files of a wide range of rate information and provide more consumer-friendly displays of pricing information for at least 300 shoppable services.
Illness or injury is stressful for patients and families, and the added uncertainty around how much care will cost can be overwhelming—especially for patients without insurance. With all that today’s health care system has to offer, health care services can represent a major financial investment—…
In September 2004, ProHealth Care went public with its Consumer Inquiry Line, a 24-hour hotline that consumers can call to learn charges for common health care procedures.