Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital among those with gaps in their price reporting.
Only one in five Pennsylvania hospitals is doing enough to make sure patients can find the prices of medical procedures on their websites, an analysis by a patient advocacy group has found.
Most hospitals in the Philadelphia-area are meeting the requirement to post a spreadsheet of prices that can be downloaded, but many are incomplete, according to ahas a spreadsheet of prices by insurance plan on its website, but a majority of price fields are empty.The rule is supposed to make it easier for patients to shop around for medical care by enabling them to see prices for common services and compare rates between hospitals.
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