The study reflects only the prices for Blue Cross Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare PPO...
The Texas Medical Center seen from McGovern Lake in Hermann Park on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, in Houston.Houston researchers are beginning to compare hospital prices using newly available data — a key step that experts say will help lower overall health care costs.
Rice University health economist Vivian Ho, who completed the study with student intern Grace Kneidel, hopes employers can use the data to arrange employee health plans that more accurately reflect the cost of services, rather than sharing uniform costs for all providers. That could include offering tiered pricing, in which consumers take on more of the cost for coverage at a higher-priced hospital.
The rules, published in 2019, include a requirement that hospitals post a machine-readable file on their websites containing the price charged to cash-paying customers for 300 services, as well as the minimum and maximum rates that the hospital has negotiated with insurers. In a statement, Methodist said the study offers a limited example of its charges, some of which are lower than other area hospitals.
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