As of January 2019, U.S. hospitals have been required to publish list prices on their websites for all services they provide to patients. A new post from the Commonwealth Fund discusses why price transparency, in the absence of corresponding information about quality and out-of-pocket-costs, can lead to poor health care choices and higher costs.
The post can be obtained at https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2019/hospital-price-transparency-making-it-useful-patients.