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The authors tout education as the most prudent means of addressing the issue.
If the individual mandate and cost-sharing reductions are repealed insurers estimate they would seek an increase of 36.3 percent.
On any given day, 1 in 25 patients across the U.S. suffers from at least one infection acquired while they are in the hospital, CDC says.
Perhaps complicating the picture is the cost of implementing a quality improvement program, the authors said.
Vermont, which regulates the hospital and insurance markets and is going to an all-payer model, is an exception at requests of 6.7 and 12.7 percent.
Barriers to conversations on cost transparency included patients' fear of being "profiled" based on their socioeconomic status or ability to pay.
The five Pennsylvania hospitals being sold to the Reading Health System are part of a planned 30-hospital divestiture.
Improving the percentage has the potential to lower costs for patients and the overall healthcare system.
Even though it didn't identify any actual misuse of the information, Beacon is offering affected patients access to free identity monitoring.
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