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Indiana's health secretary told Kentucky lawmakers the state uses targeted Medicaid rates and state-directed payments to sustain rural and critical-access hospitals while using price transparency and financial disclosures to pressure high commercial charges by large systems.

Indiana Secretary Gloria Satchdev told Kentucky's Health Care Transparency Dashboard Committee that Indiana converted its 2020 all-payer claims database into "Indiana Health Prices," added cash prices and shortened claims lag to about three months to make the data usable as a consumer shopping tool and a policy lever.

The United States now spends nearly $6 trillion a year on healthcare, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, more than twice as much as any other wealthy

OCA’s analysis of 2024 HPD claims found substantial price dispersion for 70 CMS‑designated shoppable services across California regions; staff estimated that using regional median reference pricing for those services in the fully insured sample could reduce spending by about $1.3 billion in a single year, with caveats about exclusions and provider responses.

Introduction The hospital price transparency (HPT) rule, promulgated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2021, requires most non-federal hospitals to publish their standard charge...

The Federal Trade Commission has warned 24 of the nation’s largest health systems that incomplete, inaccurate or untimely price disclosures could violate federal consumer protection law, even if the organizations comply with CMS’ hospital price transparency requirements.

The political focus on hospital price transparency is meaningless. Health insurance companies negotiate discounted reimbursement rates with hospitals. Hospitals know exactly what they will be paid by…

AHIP argued the survey, which was commissioned by a pro-hospital advocacy group, is a blatant attempt by hospitals to deflect the blame for ever-higher spending.

"I think enforcement is, at this point, warranted," PBGH head Elizabeth Mitchell testified at a House Energy health cost hearing.

A coalition backed by health insurers and employers is launching a new a new effort to showcase hospital pricing as a central driver of rising health care costs

Not all hospitals have fallen in line with the price transparency rules, and many were slow to do so.

David Marin told a House panel that manufacturers and wholesalers should get more attention.

The Trump administration pushed for price transparency in health care. But instead of patients shopping for services, it's mostly health systems and insurers using the information for negotiations.

When hospital systems spend lavishly at the top while pressing insurers and patients to pay more and more every year, it's hard to not reach the conclusion that keeping prices low for patients is not the priority.

The CEOs of most of the nation’s largest health insurers plan to lay blame for rising healthcare costs on hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and specialty providers during testimony before Congress…