Research conducted by The Joint Commission suggests consumers can effectively understand publicly reported data on hospital performance and quality, despite previous research that concluded otherwise.

Behind every well-functioning healthcare facility lies a carefully planned green hospital budget. It may not be as visible as the work happening in operating rooms or patient wards, but the budget ...

Multisector collaboration is critical for improving population health. Improving alignment between nonprofit hospitals and local health departments is one promising approach to achieving health ...

To ensure that limited state resources and federal Rural Health Transformation Fund dollars are distributed to hospitals fairly and effectively, policy makers should have timely, accurate, ...

Oria, a specialized AI chatbot, transforms complex machine-readable files (MRFs) into instant answers, removing barriers to understanding hospital prices. “For decades, healthcare prices were a ...

Healthcare is one of the few industries that has escaped the need to address true cost and quality issues – until now. But understanding the true cost of care – not just revenues and expenses, but ...

This study leverages newly available hospital pricing data to explore hospital-insurer contracts from a large hospital chain. Objectives: To use publicly available price transparency data files to ...

For decades, hospitals and health systems have invested heavily in brand advertising. Gleaming facilities, award logos, compassionate clinicians, and patient testimonials dominate marketing campaigns.

Real-world cross-validation of insurer and hospital price transparency data finds low overlap but high concordance between data sources. Given recent congressional interest in codifying price ...