title: How hospitals approach price transparency.
abstract: A survey of finance leaders found that hospitals with lower charges were more likely than other hospitals to emphasize making prices defensible rather than simply transparent. Finance leaders of hospitals with higher charges were more likely to express concern that price transparency would cause a reduction in hospital revenue by forcing them to lower charges. Those respondents said commercial payers likely will have to agree to renegotiate contracts for price transparency to be a financially viable proposition.
authors: Scott
authors: S
authors: Houk
authors: James O
authors: JO
authors: Cleverley
mesh_terms: D030881:Disclosure; D004465:Economic Competition; D017722:Hospital Charges; D014481:United States