The best, worst states for healthcare payment reform

From Becker Hospital Review, May 6, 2020 (excerpt)

Maine and New Hampshire are the only states to receive an "A" score for their healthcare price transparency efforts, according to Catalyst for Payment Reform's 2020 report card. 

For the report card, states were awarded a letter grade based on the following criteria:

• If they have legislation mandating the creation of an all-payer claims database 
• If they have any form of healthcare price information available to consumers 
• If patients can request price information before receiving services 
• If there is a provision for publishing a public report on healthcare prices 
• If there is a provision for posting healthcare prices on a public website 
• If the state has a publicly accessible, mandated website

Hawaii is among Thirty-four states receiving an "F" grade because they either didn't have an all-payer claims database or didn't mandate healthcare price transparency websites. …

read… Becker Hospital Review

PDF: REPORT CARD ON STATE PRICE TRANSPARENCY LAWS