Price Transparency

Exploring Healthcare Price Transparency for the Consumer Experience

February 1, 2024 - Shop in any store or for any service, and you will be able to look at the price tag or at least request a quote, but in healthcare, that level of price transparency is unheard of. Rather, patients go into most healthcare encounters not knowing what it will cost them due to a combination of opaque pricing on the part of providers and sometimes unclear payer benefits. The issue of...


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