The move to require healthcare prices to be made public and inform patients about quality is going virtually nowhere in most U.S. states, a new report shows.
This leaves most consumers lacking the “information they need to make informed healthcare choices” when such price and quality of care data isn’t provided, Altarum and Catalyst for Payment Reform say in their new analysis.
“We continue to find that most states miss the mark in providing consumers with usable price and quality information,” Altarum ’s Center for Value in Healthcare director François de Brantes said.
