Transparency for consumers on prices and costs is a bipartisan goal in healthcare. The good news is progress is afoot. The bad news: that progress is still painfully slow. This blog presents a quick status update with discussion of and links to some recent reports and events.
The Healthcare Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) and Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) have tracked state healthcare price transparency laws and their implementation for the past four years. In a July 2016 report they found the following: on an A to F scale, three states got As (Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire); one got a B (Oregon); two scored Cs (Virginia and Vermont), one got a D (Arizona), and 43 got Fs.
That's an improvement over 2015 when only one state—New Hampshire—got an A.
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