On Jan. 1, a new federal rule went into effect requiring hospitals to post prices for all services they provide in a searchable format on their websites. The rule was intended to make hospital pricing ...

CMS floats Medicare payment for AI diagnostic software, proposing a new category to standardize reimbursement for algorithm-driven clinical tools.

Objectives To quantify out-of-pocket (OOP) costs and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among patients hospitalised with ...

Of the roughly 1 million disputes taken through the law's arbitration process in Q2 2025, around 129,000 were for lab codes, with payments for basic tests averaging hundreds of dollars.