The new regulations are providing hospital prices to patients.This Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) report:
Starting from January 1 this year, hospitals must publish the prices of general medical services on their website through consumer-friendly tools for patients to use. Before this rule is implemented, hospitals only need to publish their total undiscounted service fees, and these fees are rarely actually paid by patients or insurance companies.
recent KFF follow-up surveyHowever, the conclusion reached is that this move is unlikely to have an impact, because very few patients actually study hospital prices. According to public opinion surveys, 85% of adult patients have not purchased hospital prices online in the past six months.This shouldn’t come as a surprise Previous research also came to the same finding.
