Starting in January, Michigan's nonprofit hospitals will become another provider group to join the transparency trend. Right now only one hospital system in the state, Spectrum Health of Grand Rapids, has voluntarily posted its prices for key procedures. Now, however, the state's 146 nonprofits are creating a shared hospital price database on the site of the state's hospital trade group, the Michigan Health & Hospital Association. The prices will cover at least 50 common procedures, tests and operations that cover up to 80 percent of a hospital's business.

To learn more the state's pricing disclosures:
- read this Detroit Free Press article [1]

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