Study Finds Extensive Variations in Cost, Transparency of Thyroid Cancer Care
A mandate from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services directed that from Jan. 1, 2021, all hospitals in the United States provide pricing information online about their services and items. The objective of this mandate is to help inform patients about the cost of procedures and services before they receive them. Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Eye and Ear used this data to examine price variation and transparency for thyroid cancer treatment. They discovered that both price and transparency differed greatly, with the costs of various services having huge variations and only one-half of the cancer…
