A new Ohio law mandates that hospitals post data on performance of 100 common procedures and report the average cost of 60 common outpatient procedures. Data is already available on 100 inpatient procedures. The information will be available on a Web site by May 2007. Yesterday we reported on the complexities of healthcare pricing and how transparency is lagging behind the adoption of CDHPs. Ohio's expanded reporting is a step in the right direction toward increasing healthcare transparency and making CDHPs a viable option for consumers.
- read this report from Modern Healthcare