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Very sick patients most likely to act on cost data

As patients and employers struggle to pay for healthcare, price-comparison tools are proliferating throughout the Web. Despite the appeal of patient access to such data, experts predict that real...

Insurers get on price transparency bandwagon

As healthcare costs continue to rise and fluctuate based on hospitals' location , price transparency efforts will continue to be important. That's what makes San Francisco-based health IT start-up

Online healthcare price transparency tools trend upward

As healthcare costs continue to rise and fluctuate based on hospitals' location , price transparency efforts will continue to be important. That's what makes San Francisco-based health IT start-up

Market a cash-based practice with price transparency, outcomes

Practices best-suited to a cash-only or direct-pay model are typically in specialties such as dermatology, psychiatry, or primary care. But a growing number of surgeons, even those traditionally

Beth Israel price list enables docs to factor costs to patients

Dr. David Ives, a Boston-based primary care doctor, may cut back on referring patients to specialists that he thinks perform an unnecessarily high number of pricy procedures. For example, he might