Hospital price transparency rule ignored for 5 years while patients stay in the dark on real costs.
This rule was supposed to change healthcare. It didn’t. Back in January 2021, the Hospital Price Transparency Rule went into effect. The idea was simple: Hospitals had to show their prices upfront. That included negotiated insurance rates, cash prices, and costs for common “shoppable” services before patients received care. Sounds obvious. So why are people …