To improve health care market dynamics and reduce costs, many states have passed legislation to improve transparency in health care for consumers, regulators, and employers. Significant state-led initiatives include building price transparency tools using data from state all-payer claims...

There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems from increasing cost shifting to patients underway in American health care and the inordinate complexity...

As healthcare expenditures continue to climb, politicians, business leaders, and patients avidly search for new methods to reduce healthcare costs. In an eleven-point plan released this summer, a group of the nation’s top healthcare experts listed “full transparency of prices” as one...

The United States currently spends more than any other nation on healthcare, as a percentage of gross domestic product and per capita. Our healthcare markets suffer from high levels of consolidation, a lack of clear price and quality signals for consumers, and an inability to access price,...