By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Hospitals face the new year with new requirements to post price information they have long sought to obscure: the actual prices negotiated with insurers and the discounts they offer their cash-paying customers.
The move is part of a larger push by the Trump administration to use price transparency to curtail prices and create better-informed consumers.
Yet there is disagreement on whether it will do so. As of Jan. 1, facilities must publicly post on their websites prices for every service, drug and supply they provide.
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