Health Care Price Transparency: Meaningful Price Information is Difficult for Consumers to Obtain prior to Receiving Care

This report, put out by the U.S. GAO, examines the various legal and health care factors that make it difficult for consumers to obtain price information for health care services they receive.  The report also examined the effectiveness of a number of public and private price transparency initiatives, and concluded that these initiatives vary greatly in the information provided.

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