Based on the readings and the resources below, describe your thoughts on what accounts for the rise in US healthcare spending and the opaque nature of healthcare prices.
Questions to consider in your response:
Why is it so difficult for patients in the United States to access information on healthcare prices?
Why do you think price control efforts have been unsuccessful?
What are options for price-sensitive consumers who want to avoid catastrophic health care bills?
What do you think will be the impact of the Executive Orders to mandate price transparency?
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-proposes-rule-increase-price-transparency-access-care-safety-health-equity (Links to an external site.)
Sources of healthcare prices:
Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
https://www.cms.gov/medicare/physician-fee-schedule/search/overview (Links to an external site.)
Private Health Insurance Prices:
– FAIR Health
https://www.youcanplanforthis.org/ (Links to an external site.)
– Guroo (Health Care Cost Institute)
https://www.guroo.com (Links to an external site.)
State Websites
– Connecticut
https://healthscorect.com/cost-estimator (Links to an external site.)
– Florida Health Price Finder
https://pricing.floridahealthfinder.gov/# (Links to an external site.)!
– Maryland – Wear the Cost
https://www.wearthecost.org/ (Links to an external site.)
– New Hampshire Health Cost
https://nhhealthcost.nh.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
– University of Utah
https://mychart.med.utah.edu/mychart/GuestEstimates
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