Patients struggle to understand healthcare costs, but the process of setting costs and charging for services rendered can be complex enough to confound industry experts. The chargemaster is at the ...

Chargemaster prices for generic drugs in hospitals can be 6,000 percent higher than the price of the same drug in a pharmacy, according to an analysis by GoodRx, a pharmacy discount company. GoodRx ...

Dave Danforth is on assignment this week, so we are running one of his past columns. This one appeared on Jan. 13, 2019. If you ever wanted to write a novel featuring wrenching scenes of screeching, ...

(Reuters Health) - U.S. hospitals' sticker prices for two common sources of surprise medical bills have climbed far faster than economic inflation, a new study suggests. Researchers focused on ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, Inc. (HCAT) ("Health Catalyst," Nasdaq: HCAT), a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Price Transparency Rule went into effect on January 1, 2021, but whether it will succeed in making prices readily comparable for healthcare ...

For the last ten years, I have been in the unique position of helping national health plans such as United HealthCare and Blue Cross/Blue Shield negotiate hospital contracts. At the same time, I have ...