• A recent study found that price transparency, if supported by lasting patient utilization, could lower healthcare costs by as much as 14 percent.
• Vitals, a physician rating platform, acquired price transparency company Compass Healthcare Advisers. With the acquisition, Vitals’ rating system will be combined with the price transparency platform.
• Six endoscopy centers and two ambulatory surgery centers joined the price transparency platform Pricing Healthcare, which includes pricing information from 14 states.
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