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After the current Department of Justice ruling on the Hospital Value Initiative, individuals will be able to gain transparency in hospital pricing. The Hospital Value Initiative aims to aggregate, analyze and distribute comparative data on reimbursements and resources hospitals use to provide inpatient and outpatient care.
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Medical providers have asked the question of whether offering cash discounts for certain health services jeopardizes their insurance contracts- especially regarding Medicare/Medicaid, as they have the most complex rules and regulations. Unfortunately, after reviewing various documents on the matter, there are no clear and absolute answers; but certainly there are prevailing opinions and recommendations. A pertinent review of the issues and opinions for health facilities offering discounts to uninsured patients can be found at this link.
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The internet is becoming the go-to solution for almost everything. People use the internet for a news source, for communicating, for research, for entertainment, and now more and more people are using the web to look up health information. According to the first National Health Interview Survey, in one year a little over half of U.S. adults used the internet to look up health information.
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