Highlights from this week's Healthcare Transparency News, Studies, and Articles:
PriceCheck: How Much Does A Colonoscopy Cost? (California)
[By: , KQED]
“The colonoscopy: it may be the most dreaded screening test out there, and it’s the next procedure we’re covering as part of PriceCheck. On PriceCheck, we’re crowdsourcing prices of common health tests and procedures.”
Is high-deductible insurance changing healthcare shopping habits?
[By: Taunya English, WYYY / Newsworks]
WHYY Senior Health Writer Taunya English discusses the impact of high-deductible insurance plans on healthcare consumer shopping habits.
The Challenges of Healthcare-Cost Transparency
[By: Maura C. Ciccarelli, Human Resource Executive Online]
“Despite all of the information now available on healthcare costs, new research finds only a small number of workers actually use it or even know it exists. How can HR help increase awareness and usage of this data?”
Connecticut Senate adopts major health care changes
[By: Mary O’Leary, The Middletown Press]
“The state Senate overwhelmingly adopted major health care changes Thursday in a bipartisan vote that reins in some facility fees, looks to development of a health information exchange to guarantee the sharing of patient data and aims to keep private physician practices in business.”
Health care consumer protection bill sits on governor’s desk (Texas)
[By: , Valley Morning Star]
“As a consumer protection bill that mandates more transparency about freestanding emergency departments sits on the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott, another local hospital mulls the possibility of investing in its own operation.”
A Foundation Delves into Health Care Price Transparency (Kentucky)
[By: M. Gabriela Alcalde, HealthAffairsBlog]
A Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky workgroup used information from [recent] presentations and discussions and a review of the current literature on price transparency to develop the following recommendations for Kentucky.
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