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Price transparency eludes consumers in 43 states

July 27, 2016

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Just seven states achieved a passing grade for making usable healthcare price information available to consumers, a new study finds.

The other 43 states failed at price transparency because they didn’t collect claims data from all payers or they failed to make the data accessible to the public through a website, according to the 2016 Report Card on State Price Transparency Laws (PDF).

The report is the fourth installment by the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute and Catalyst for Payment Reform, two independent health policy organization.

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